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Day July 23, 2006

Suh-mokin’!

Evidently, it is okay for us to spread our values throughout the world, and tell people what to think and do.

But “we know what’s good for you” begins at home.

Family album

Despite some dreary weather, we had a lovely day up in Connecticut with my cousins, most of whom I hadn’t seen in 10 years. That span (coinciding with both daughters’ weddings in the summer of 1996) has yielded 5 children, plus a bunch of retrievers:

Amy was pretty happy to discover that

a) I have relatives in the United States

b) I have relatives who aren’t crazy

There was a third dog who couldn’t get into the picture. He has a big “elizabethan” collar on to keep him from chewing on his foreleg. It looked pretty sad, and I opined that they should paint a big sunflower pattern on the inside of the collar, so at least they could be cheered when the dog looked up at the them.

We had to get a pic of Amy with the youngest kid, for obvious reasons:

I’m not skinny; I’m out of toner

A trippy, uncategorizable, compelling post about the body, the city, science and art, from Geoff Manaugh at BLDGBLOG.