Attentive and Watchful
Memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.
-The Art of Racing in the Rain,
a novel by Garth Stein
November 23, 1988
That autumn feeling with Thanksgiving around the corner is a relaxed time. Ashley is the ultimate dancing queen these days, so I’m having fun shooting her in her leg warmers and diverse dancing gear. I actually allowed her to use my camera to take a stellar portrait photo of me on this day. I think she did rather well.PHOTO: Portrait of ‘Michael J Armijo’
taken by 4-year old Ashley Armijo
Mom was babysitting Leigh on this afternoon, so I was able to observe her gorgeous eyes. She’s very ‘into’ her Cabbage Patch babies. Leigh doesn’t say much right now but she is very attentive and watchful. She’s always looking and listening.
Sometimes I wonder what she is actually thinking.
Thanksgiving Day 1988
As usual, it was a festive gathering at Mom’s house today. This would be our second Thanksgiving without my Dad being there. The holiday is special for mom. We all get together and mom loves to do Thanksgiving lunch versus dinner, so we can have leftovers for dinner and she doesn’t have tons of kitchen dishwashing and cleaning to do after dinnertime. It all works out nicely. It’s fun to watch the MACY’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York, too. I look for the floats that catch my eye like CHIP N’ DALE, the fun DISNEY characters or that element of surprise.
I took a few Polaroid shots throughout the day, including my brother, John, sneaking in some bites before we were all seated at the table. I can’t blame him. We were all hyped-up to eat, stomachs growling. I also took my traditional Group Photo for Thanksgiving. I took a number of them. Including a few where I wasn’t fast enough to be included in the photo. Oh well…I managed to get into two of the photos of which ‘one of those’ will be the ultimate Group Photo for Thanksgiving 1988.
At dinner I shared my excitement about seeing two new films next month: TEQUILA SUNRISE starring Mel Gibson and Michelle Pfeiffer and TWINS starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. The very act of writing something down, or putting it on a screen, can help us work out what it is we’re trying to say. Authors sometimes make hundreds of drafts before they’re happy that what they’ve written is what they want to say. This especially happens in literature. One of the reasons is that words don’t just express meanings; they express feelings too. --David Crystal, A LITTLE BOOK OF LANGUAGE
(a book I randomly found on a ledge of a building on a quiet street in Paris, France)
-The Art of Racing in the Rain,
a novel by Garth Stein
November 23, 1988That autumn feeling with Thanksgiving around the corner is a relaxed time. Ashley is the ultimate dancing queen these days, so I’m having fun shooting her in her leg warmers and diverse dancing gear. I actually allowed her to use my camera to take a stellar portrait photo of me on this day. I think she did rather well.PHOTO: Portrait of ‘Michael J Armijo’
taken by 4-year old Ashley Armijo
Mom was babysitting Leigh on this afternoon, so I was able to observe her gorgeous eyes. She’s very ‘into’ her Cabbage Patch babies. Leigh doesn’t say much right now but she is very attentive and watchful. She’s always looking and listening.
Sometimes I wonder what she is actually thinking.
Thanksgiving Day 1988
As usual, it was a festive gathering at Mom’s house today. This would be our second Thanksgiving without my Dad being there. The holiday is special for mom. We all get together and mom loves to do Thanksgiving lunch versus dinner, so we can have leftovers for dinner and she doesn’t have tons of kitchen dishwashing and cleaning to do after dinnertime. It all works out nicely. It’s fun to watch the MACY’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York, too. I look for the floats that catch my eye like CHIP N’ DALE, the fun DISNEY characters or that element of surprise.I took a few Polaroid shots throughout the day, including my brother, John, sneaking in some bites before we were all seated at the table. I can’t blame him. We were all hyped-up to eat, stomachs growling. I also took my traditional Group Photo for Thanksgiving. I took a number of them. Including a few where I wasn’t fast enough to be included in the photo. Oh well…I managed to get into two of the photos of which ‘one of those’ will be the ultimate Group Photo for Thanksgiving 1988.
At dinner I shared my excitement about seeing two new films next month: TEQUILA SUNRISE starring Mel Gibson and Michelle Pfeiffer and TWINS starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. The very act of writing something down, or putting it on a screen, can help us work out what it is we’re trying to say. Authors sometimes make hundreds of drafts before they’re happy that what they’ve written is what they want to say. This especially happens in literature. One of the reasons is that words don’t just express meanings; they express feelings too. --David Crystal, A LITTLE BOOK OF LANGUAGE
(a book I randomly found on a ledge of a building on a quiet street in Paris, France)
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