Lorena, Kelly, Christian and I all went to the Dallas Museum of Art. It is wildly impressive. The picture with this blog post is of me with an original Claude Monet. There were Pissarros, Manets, Gaugins and much, much more. It was at least as good as the North Carolina Museum of Art and we truly love the North Carolina Museum of Art. We have just touched the tip of the iceberg in Dallas and are looking forward to much, much more.
Betty Blonde #498 – 07/14/2010
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Aunt Julia and Uncle Rich drove up to Seattle to see the opera last night. I got Kelly a ticket as a gift for surviving a period of insane school intensity. I think she is finally over the hump and has figured out both what is required, but also that it is also possible to for her to do what is required and have a life. That is actually, I think, a very big and important breakthrough.
Lorena spent the whole day cleaning and cooking. She had the time of her life. It is counterintuitive to me how those first two sentences hang together. Part of it had to do with the fact that she bought him a new mop. Looking back at that last sentence, I concede that, still, none of this makes a whole lot of sense to me. Lorena picked up Christian after school, just like the old days at NCSU and they went down to Target to buy “stuff.” Both of them had a ball. I am losing hope that I will figure out all the joy associated with these events. On the other hand, I hung around in the apartment all day, did nothing and felt really good about it for the first tie in years.
We are taking a brief hiatus in Tempe to visit Christian in our road trip to Texas. Lorena needs to get her workouts in. She explained it is not so much that she is fanatical about doing it, she just hates the pain of starting all over again when she has missed a week or two. She is actually up to two 35 minute sessions per week on the elliptical and three 60 minute sessions per week on the Concept II rowing machine with some weight lifting thrown in the mix, too. It pains me just thinking about it.
Lorena loves to grow flowers. She did a vegetable garden last year in the Wilsonville community garden areas. She loves her vegetables but she is crazy about flowers. She bought a wrought iron flower box holder for our balcony and was very gratified her tulips bloomed before we left. She has already donated the flowers to Gladys, but hung on to the flower box holder. We hope to get some ficus trees for inside the house as soon as we get to Texas.
This morning we packed all of the things we had accumulated from a year of fourth floor studio apartment living in Wilsonville, Oregon into a 5×8 U-Haul. It is amazing how much stuff one accumulates, even in such a cramped space. Dinner is planned tonight with our dear friend Gladys followed by church tomorrow morning and evening with Grandpa Milo and Grandma Sarah. After that, we are off to Texas.
The People of the Lie
