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27 January, 2005 - 2:40 pm

I don’t write as much about K as I do about H. I’m not really sure why. K is just as remarkable, in some ways even more so. It’s just that she is quieter and keeps to herself much more than H does. She isn’t as social, so people respond to her differently.

Right now, K is just a few chapters from the end of Harry potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. She fought me over reading it. It looked like an awful lot of work. But one night a while back the movie was on TV and d tuned in to it for a few moments. There was Harry walking through the train station with Hagrid and Hedwig. He looked down at his ticket and read ‘Gate 9 ¾’ and when he looked up Hagrid was gone. Just then D changed the channel. K started asking all kinds of questions, to which D simply said, “I guess you will have to read the book.” And she did. And now that she’s almost done it didn’t seem like work at all of course.

K loves poetry. I’ve bragged on this point before. She has taken to poetry like a duck to water. Her favorite poets? Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost. She and I took turned last weekend reading great poetry (Dunne, Blake, Yeats) out loud to each other and discussing the themes. Yes, she is only 8.

She is also artistic. She naturally applies concepts in perspective and technique that I have to fumble through. Her work is wonderful and I should hang more of it on the walls.

I spoke to her teacher yesterday about K. I had a question about an upcoming homework assignment and the conversation went off on a tangent. The teacher called my daughter ‘quite the history buff.’ K is fascinated by the Revolutionary war. She can rattle off facts about the war and about the first three Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States. It amazes me. George Washington is a great personal hero of K’s.

And her sense of humor is turning out to be one of true wit and wordplay. It is so much fun to hear D tall her a joke and the look on her face when she ‘gets it.’

She is still as much a treasure as the day she was born.

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