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A letter to my son Kai, as part of a culmination project for the Mountain School.

Kai,

There is never really enough time to say everything, only moments and fragments in the soft haze of memory that allow us to make sense of it all. I write this letter at a time in my life where you [...]

Ralph’s World at the Filmore
You know you are getting old when your first show in years at the Filmore in San Francisco happens to be a children’s concert and you end up having an even better time than your kid. We saw Ralph Covert (of “Ralph’s World”:http://www.ralphsworld.com and the Chicago Band the Bad Examples) play [...]

Kai reading a book.

Kai at an outdoor concert. The smudge on his forehead is lipstick.

!http://www.sotto.org/images/IMG_20962.jpg(Kai enjoying the Stanford scene)!
Kai enjoys running around Stanford a couple of warm weekends ago.

We had been teaching Kai baby sign language when we finally made first contact about a month ago when he made the sign for “more”. He now knows the following: more, milk, eat, water, ball, finished and fish. How he learned the fish sign is a long story. We’ve watched a couple of the recommended [...]

My free time with Kai has been incredibly rewarding these past few months. From the moment he began to walk (@12 months), the door in his mind and personality has swung wide into the open expanse of the world around him. As I described to a dear friend, Kai now walks with a purpose into [...]

There are no words to express how happy you make me. There is no gift worth more than what you give to me each day. From father to son, I give you love from the beginning of the world to the tips of my fingers. Happy 1st Birthday Kai.

Things I’ve learned about babies so far:

When something is placed at or near the roof of their mouths, they have a suck reflex.
When you touch the middle of their palms, they have a grasp reflex.
When there is a sudden noise in the room, they have a startle reflex.
Unbeknown to most, when you wear long [...]