Today was a travel day to see the kids and the grandkids. Traffic wasn’t too bad on the way down to Burbank. As we were driving on ‘the 5’ (the nomenclature locals use when they talk about Interstate 5) at a good clip (the speed limit is 70 miles per hour), when I saw red tail lights ahead. I told Joy, my wife, that there was probably trouble ahead. Every now and then, one might see a single car’s brake lights, if it got too close to the car in front, but when everyone puts on the brakes, something is happening. I looked to my left, and saw the the aftermath of an accident that must have just happened. A car was overturned. There was a person in all dressed in green leaning over another person who was flat on his or her back, but no ambulance yet. It must have been a good samaritan. Such an accident makes one think – about a lot of things, kids, grandkids for example, and makes one especially careful on the road. We made it to Burbank safely and on schedule, thank goodness.

William’s pencil experiment:

William is my grandson. He is 19 months old. I gave him a number 2B (jumbo) pencil held a lined composition notebook out for him. He began to draw – or a better way to describe it would be to say he took the pencil point for a walk. (This is how Paul Klee describes drawing, by the way.)

I am pleased to say, I have to the best of my knowledge, William’s first drawing.

William’s First Drawing
9.75″x15″ 2B Pencil on Composition Notebook Paper

Comment:

If I didn’t know the artist, it would still be clear from this composition that the he has thrown off inhibitions. He has maintained his child-like impulses.

As an aside, William, being the inventive soul that he is, attempted to draw on the edge of the paper. Who would ever have thought of that?