Today, like every other day,
We wake up empty and frightened.
Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down
a musical instrument. Let
the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways
to kneel and kiss the ground.
—Rumi (trans. Coleman Barks) —
Unbeknownst to me until the end of the day, Saturday, the 30th of April, was Danel's last Saturday Art with us for an extended time. He and his father left for Australia the following Tuesday, May 3rd, possibly to stay permanently. A big 'boo-hoo' for me, which is evident in the opening photos of this YouTube video, possibly the last photo of Daniel and me, together:
Happily, I'd taken my usual excess of photographs during the day, an excess motivated by delight for the variety of activities the students were instigating, so there were plenty of Daniel to make his last day memorable on YouTube.
However, Daniel also has a folder filled with his artwork worth sharing but this one is a special breakthrough: it is his first WRITTEN story, made possible by detouring his dyslexia difficulties. With Jacen's help in transcribing his oral tale, he then typed her transcription himself, directly into a document:
GODZILLA SAVES THE OWLS
Godzilla was on an island,
he found some owls in trouble from the giant trying to eat the owls.
So Godzilla trying to use his water power to save the owls
from the lion giant.
When Godzilla destroy the giant the owls fly up to him and said thank you Godzilla.
THE END
GOOD NEWS! Daniel will be back with us again, in July!
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