moms and lists

i love this mother-list, which is excerpted from the excerpt of Elizabeth Smart's diary which is included in the book Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood:

New Year's Resolutions 1945
1. Keep a diary or Daily Notebook.
2. Keep Accounts and never spend more than 20 a month on living (and partly living).
3. Keep the children Prettily dressed always.
4. Keep Everything Clean.
5. Answer all letters within three days.
6. Keep bowels open.
7. Have a baby. [checked] Sebastian 16 April 1945.
8. Learn to play Chess.
9. Write Canadian History Book.
10. Acquire a Radio, Piano, Dulcitione, Harpsicord, Clavichord, gramophone or Alto as means of obtaining music, and teach children to listen.
11. Tranlate Canadian Folksongs and acquire all available books and information on them.
12. Make a final decision about George, if he won't about me, and stick to it. The years roll on and the freezing wind.

A ROCK FROM WISCONSIN (QUARTZITE?)

UPNESS WITH SUN BRIGHT GUYS SMILING ROCKS

GREEN GOES WITH IT AND ANCIENT SEA REMAINS?

PURPLER AN IDEA FOR A PAINTING

THE WAY THE SPLIT HAPPENS (WITH GREYS BEHIND)

A WISCONSIN

A devils lake A camping spot

A baby A lake

A cooking A spoon ("Sure thing")

wisconsin camping gives poem title ideas

rocks and lakes (purplings) moms and lakes (pointings)

babies and lakes (gummings)

brains workers and lakes (the poetics of state park signs)

leaves and lakes (hanglings)

file under: a new place:::::me the mama and the finn and the quinn in the wisconsin woods (more photos to come after i finish wrangling with new photo uploading device)

file under: how a baby learns to get around::::::::finnegan army crawls all over, in search of the dog water bowl

file under: a crunchy new recipe/ prep for camping:::::making sir wasano's indonesian rice salad in anticipation of wisconsin camping trip