Sunday 19 August 2012 - 10:00
No Hope for Me
Sitting in the sun - sitting in the car,
nice and warm, my daughter’s music
vibrating in my ears, here at the car-
wash, she’s paying for the privilege
to drive the sturdy Suzuki
I showed her my notebook covered
with lined paper in violet, purple, pink
and green, she ungraciously remarked
she was better at it, she had learnt at
school as I made a mess of Desifix
She coolly informed me there was no
hope for me when she saw my purple
plastic bag which I carried to strengthen
my purple aura tapering off to violet
and soft pink – I dream…
Later the day - 15:15
My Own Solar Version
Delighted I rediscovered the solar system
model in ‘Space, The Hands-On Approach
to Science’ – which I had used to create my
own solar version on the sunroom floor using
string for the planet’s orbits - a soccer ball was
the sun in the centre
Mercury’s string orbit fluctuated a lot, Venus’
orbit fluctuated more, hard to form orbits on the
floor – Earth & Mars represented by coloured
balls, difficult to fill in Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,
Neptune and Pluto, orbits getting confused,
toys representing these planets
Thus the kids could see a solar system in two
dimensions - I love this book, love the library
as custodian of all the wonderful books that
fill me with ideas – wild and wonderful…
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