Dear Intimacy,
What would you have me know today?
lately it appears that i’m trying to document everything about my life in various forms (photographs, writing, drawing, journaling, memos). since having kids, my memory is not what it used to be! (i feel like a real mom when i say things like this). i remember my BFF, brione bruce (who won the french award in grade 12), telling me after she had her second kid that she would ask her 3 year old to remember things for her. i thought that sounded a bit strange. yet here i am years later asking miles and margot to remember things for me (or making some sort of note/art/piece about the experience).
one of the notes i made was last month when miles, margot and i were playing outfoxed! around our kitchen table. hamilton (our cat) was sitting on the fourth kitchen table chair and started to cough. miles and margot looked bewildered and their eyes went straight to me. i realized they had not seen hamilton cough. i explained that he was coughing because he probably had a hairball. margot then asked “hamilton doesn’t cover?” (as in use his elbow to cover his mouth when he coughs!) i still chuckle to myself when i think about this moment.
miles, margot, and i are still creating in the mornings. today we didn’t use the drawing on the right side of the brain book, and instead used a prompt from suleika jaouad’s newest book. the prompt asked us to draw a giraffe with our eyes closed, and then to make reflections about our drawing/experience. i loved this experience! miles was shocked when i asked him if he wanted to draw a GIRAFFE with his eyes closed!
i love how miles drew a smiling face on his giraffe.
in true margot form, she decided to go her own way and drew a unicorn ice cream!