Not Quite Wordless Wednesday: Using a Coloring Book to Practice Skills

  Some time back, i think i showed this coloring book here, though i'm not finding it now.
  Seems maybe a bit silly to spend so much time with predrawn images, but i look at it as developing one skill which will transfer to another, to be worked on at another time.
  Anyway, i'm consciously thinking of these pages as a way to work on my skin tones.  Nowhere near where i want to be yet, but maybe a bit closer.
  i've always had a big problem with

New Post on my other blog

i don't use my other blog very much, but i did just make a post.
It's more of a Christian and Bible emphasis blog.  You might want to check it out.
https://judges2.blogspot.com/2020/07/waiting.html

A photographer photographs his autistic son

  One of the email lists i receive is from My Modern Met.
i can't tell if they're a physical museum or just an online entity (including store!), but they do share fascinating arty things several times a week.

  Today, they sent me a short blurb about photographer Timothy Archibald and the portraits he shoots of his autistic son.  Interesting and unusual.  The Modern Met article links Archibald's site.  Check it out.

Words on Wednesday: Current Reading

  My sister is clearing out books again, a never-ending job.  She loves reading as do i.
  i don't know if these are all of her Robin Jones Gunn books.  i know she's still got a couple of Sisterchicks  titles of mine somewhere, so maybe there are more of these.
  Something she said about these books got to me.

Back to School in a COVID year

Sharing via my PTA  npta.org newsletter:
Parents' Guide to School Online Reopening: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2020/07/16/back-to-school-reopening-online-parents-guide/5416528002/
Directly from the PTA, questions to ask as you consider what you need to do with YOUR kid: npta.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0zMDI2ODI4JnA9MSZ1PTM2NzI3NjM1NCZsaT0yNDgxMzI0Ng/index.html

Also from IN*Source: Recovery and Compensatory Services for those still in school

This is also from the Indiana Department of Education, via the above-mentioned IN*Source newsletter:

From IN*Source: Survey for family caregivers re dental health

IN*Source's newsletter arrived in my inbox today.  One of the items it included is a survey for family caregivers of adult or child individuals with disabilities, regarding their dental care. 

i have heard of many disabled individuals with difficulties regarding dental care. Max is blessed that we are able to keep him with his nonMedicaid dentist.  The comfort the two have together is one of the biggest factors in his terrific dental health.

Here's the notice:

Calling Family Caregivers of Individuals with a Disability

Midweek Photo: to the left of my desk

Left: My father in law with his clarinet, and my dad, home on leave, with various medals and patches from his WWII service

Wordless Wednesday: Compare

From our 2008, 9day wonder, trip to Hawaii.  The right image is a photo of Ka'paa in Kohala, while the left is a picture i did in art class in watercolor pencil.  Looking at them this week, it seems that i have too much emphasis on the foreground in the colored pencil one.  What do you think?

Not Quite Wordless Wednesday: A Happy Kid?

  Yes, i really think Max was happy here.  It was an exciting day: he got to ride in an ambulance!