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Archive for December 2008
I’m taking all these pictures (all these pictures, I mean). Midway through the photo shoot, Dylan concludes that taking pictures of him is all I do, based on his limited experience. “I am sure you also have other, useful skills,” he tries to say. “Perhaps later you can show me these ‘cuddles’ I am hearing so much about in the news.”
There are a slug of new photos up, still poorly organized. Most of them are of Dante having an excellent Halloween, a fun rainy season, and a pretty nice Christmas. Then, this guy shows up claiming to be his brother, and hijinks ensue. Feel good hit of the season!
This diminutive gentleman — 21 inches, 6 pounds 14 ounces — joined our family on the 22nd, at 7:53PM. On Christmas, we decided we would give him an epistemological (or maybe even ontological) gift: the name Dylan Darwin Creitz.
These days, we think of two bearers of the name “Dylan”. First, there’s Dylan Thomas, the eminent Welsh poet of the 20th century, famous for his concise diction and his sense of euphony. Second, there’s Bob Dylan, the bardic name chosen by Robert Zimmerman; like Thomas, he is famous for his economy with words.
Before the work of Charles Darwin, biology was barely a science, just a welter of facts. His special genius was to see the single, simple narrative that underlies all of life, an act of concision that any poet would envy.
