Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Jackson's first Show

Saying it's been a while seems like an understatement. And it seems absurd to start describing how Jackson has changed in the year since we've been back from Corsica, in the year since our last post. So we're going to let this little video speak for itself. It's Jackson's first real public performance, the Winter Show at the Inman Park Cooperative Preschool. I sort of doubt it's going to be his last time on stage.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008




It's well possible that this will be our last dispatch from Corsica (until, of course, Jackson decides to move back and marry the girl you will see below). So, once again we have a whole host of snaps taken in a number of different locales. Some are from Paris with Dell and Bop and Boodle--though the bulk and perhaps best of those pictures were confiscated by border patrol in a box of CDs and razor blades sent from California, many are from Tralonca and the surrounding mountains, a few are from Sardegna--including Jackson's first attempt at natural sculpture ala Andy Goldsworthy, and there are a few rogue shots we found from an old trip to London with Bop and Boodle.
You will see a large plate of cupcakes, which Sarah made for Jackson 2nd birthday party, and which now Jackson (and his dad) are consuming at an unhealthy pace. We sang Happy Birthday to him in French. They need to come up with a new melody. The rhythm is all wrong in French.

Jackson is becoming quite the mountaineer. He says bonjour to all the passing hikers. And, although he still lets us take him in the pack, he now prefers climbing the rocks (or running the trail) himself.

Another highlight in this series is Jackson eyeing his Bob Marley shirt and then doing quite a decent impression of Mr. Marley.

Jackson continues to progress musically, something not quite captured in these pictures--though captured well in our videos should we ever post them. He has about an album's worth of material that he can and does sing often--including a couple of Corsican numbers that we don't know where he learned.

You'll also see Jackson trying his aim at his "pot," which he now not only fills but dumps with pride into the real toilet.

I think the rest of these speak for themselves--except maybe one of the many stacks of stones that inspired Jackson's now famous (on YouTube) Cairn video. But if there are any questions, we'll be back in America come December. Hallelujah.