(so many disparate pieces)
There are about forty-eight paragraphs that I’ve been pounding away at all night, but I finally closed that window –with piece, of course, unfinished– so that I could tell you the much more pressing news of how Mathias spent the entirety of one sick morning carefully cobbling together Legos into the shape of Mario and Luigi from Mario Brothers. Then he did an accompanying set (pretty much to scale!) of game elements. For instance, there were all the relevant mushrooms: A Power-Up, a 1-Up, Poison, Super Mega, Life, etc.
Just when I thought he was putting the finishing touches on his project, he marched out a Sharpie, carefully inked solid question marks on paper, painstakingly cut them out and scotch-taped the punctuation to little rectangles of wall constructed in solid colors.
He wanted to do the Princess and a fire flower and some other brainy-kid shit, but his fever kicked in and was quickly followed by meds knocking him out. Oh well, this is why we live….to create one more again when given the opportunity of a fresh head and ample sunlight.
:: mathias and his world-famous expressive foot ::
Did you know that Lego Robotics is an actual curriculum that my actual kid is involved in at his actual school?? Did you know that there was such a thing as a Lego Master Builder? How gorgeous a world is it, that will allow us such possibilities? Where will these possibilities take this complex boy overflowing with the impetus toward creativity?
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