Blog for 2025-08-10

Beginnings are such fragile things. This is the first of what I hope is a series of blogs covering interests, thoughts, projects. For now I'm keeping the site looking simple and will evolve the style over time. I felt it was more important to get something... anything published.

Lately I've been preparing for a trip to Berlin by trying to learn German. Duolingo is the service I've been using to learn. Developing an ear for other languages has been a challenge for me. Not to say I'm not making progress but like most things I wish that progress was faster.

My daughter has been interested in learning how to draw so I picked up a couple books from our local library. She has been repeatedly coming back and drawing for a few mornings and nights. She's started to hit some resistance with drawing a rabbit. Getting the proportions of the head and body right has been frustrating her. I have no doubt she will have her breakthrough and move on to the next challenge. This has actually been a great opportunity for me to start sketching and drawing as we can learn together. I've wanted to learn draw for a long, long time but never dedicated the time or effort to it. My daughter has been a great inspiration to me.

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