Becoming

I had a wonderful and wacky art professor in college, an oldish Austrian gentleman who completely looked the part, with the crazy professorial hair and a thick German accent, and as he taught the class, he would conduct a little dance in response to the slides behind him as he described and even personified the expression behind the work on the screen. Toward the end of one lecture, he said, "Some people tell me, 'Professor Oberhuber [sic], you should not move around so much when you're lecturing," and I tell them, 'It is not enough to see the art; you must feel the art with your whole body.'"

Our children feel the same way about the music on their eclectic party CD's, including Batman and Star Wars music, which they're feeling with their whole bodies at this moment.

Ian reported the lineup to me:

"Daddy, we're all beying someone from something:

I'm being the kid from the song who's singing... Daniel's being the Storm Trooper from Star Wars that we did...And Madeleine's being Batgirl from Batman."

(April 9, 2011)