Nowy Targ Cemetery
Winter Sunset, Jablonka
Wednesday Evening
Math homework with the Girl; Christmas cards with the Boy; toys with Clover.
Family Game
We had a little family game time this evening. L came downstairs and asked if we could play Forbidden Island or whatever that game that has a 15+ page instruction book is called. I’d laughed at the rules earlier when L and K were trying to figure it out: three different decks of cards (or is it four), multiple little things you can do, a turn that seems to last forever — it just seemed overly complicated.
Tonight, I sat down with them and let them explain it. Fairly simple when it comes down to it — I guess I just wasn’t willing to do the work at the beginning, digging through the instructions and figuring it out.
It’s interesting in that instead of playing against the other players, you’re all trying to accomplish the same goal. Cooperation instead of competition.
A great way to spend the evening.
Inside the Nowy Targ Bus Station
Zakopane in November
Playing in the Hall
The Last Few Days
The Boy has been watching the Netflix series Extraordinary Houses. He loves it. Loves it. He’s started designing houses in his free time.
The Girl has been getting into math that requires assistance. K is only too happy to help.
Lipnica Sunset
I look at some of the images from my time in Lipnica Wielka, a little village on the southern border of Poland (who would think to move there?!), and I find it difficult to believe I actually did live there. It is so far removed from my present reality, so very distant and foreign, that I find it difficult to comprehend how I came to live there and how, after two years in Boston, I came to return there.
I lived there seven years — seven — and loved almost each and every day of those approximately 2,100 days.
