This is Ten.

stories and snippets from the frontlines of age ten.

Child 1 (girl)

A great deal of teasing her younger brother - three years her junior. Ability to turn on a dime: best of buds, then pivot quickly to teasing him relentlessly. Seems very conscious of people, including us, watching her be affectionate or appear to be having too good a time with him.

Reading: Flora & Ulysses

Child 2 (boy)

Up in the morning. First thing. Usually between 5 and 6am, seven days a week. To draw, illustrate, or paint before the day’s dawn and realities fully arrive. Amazing.

Ralph Steadman. Starting around October? Huge influence. Constantly painting. Both digital and watercolor, ink, acrylic.

Ray Bradbury. Big fan still.

Loving theater and acting.

Very interested in peoples ages and when they die, as well as last words and how tall people are. Beginning January 2021

Extremely conscientious.

Very, very into politics still. Very up on what the state of the Republican Party is and the latest hypocrisies or ludicrous pronouncements to capture for eternity via cartoons. By the way: his cartoons are getting really good.

Memorizing people’s birth and death dates. He’s pretty amazing with it. Getting really interested in arranging history in different contexts.
Dip pens. Mixed media painting.
Ray Bradbury. Still.
Twilight Zone (original)
April 2021

Draw draw cartoon paint draw paint draw collage paint draw cartoon write research draw illustrate paint research read swing draw paint repeat.
June 2021

This is his birthday list for turning 11 this month:

Snowdon Cartridge Paper 300 GSM
Winsor Newton Ink Pack
Accordion (NOT electronic, NO pattern)
OLD record player (eBay)
Polaroid 600 Black & White Film
The Tale of Driver Grope (Ralph Steadman)
Any Ray Bradbury books

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