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As of tomorrow morning, my kids will be together in Washington D.C.  Jessica and her fiance Matt are working there this summer as interns (for different organizations). She bravely and kindly invited her younger brother Paul to fly from California to visit her for ten days.  This is Paul’s first time traveling by himself, so he is being brave too.

We visited the capitol as a family two years ago when Jessica was singing in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, so Paul knows something about the place. He has been researching what he wants to see and adding his ideas to our family calendar: the National Museum of the American Indian, the National Air and Space Museum, the mall, the National Zoo, Colonial Williamsburg (near where his to-be-brother-in-law Matt goes to college), and other sites.

I am pleased that my kids have such a good relationship and I hope that their adventure will go well.

Images by Katy Dickinson, Copyright 2010

My 17-year-old son Paul loves creating sculptures. Starting last year, he built a ceramic and copper boat as an engagement present for his sister Jessica and her fiance Matt. The boat took much longer than planned because someone accidentally set something heavy on top of it when it was half-dry in the Paly art room. Before the boat, Paul created a Rauschenberg Combine interpretation box with copper wire (my Christmas present!). The blue box is supposed to be filled with small green glass bottles but someone recycled the original set, so we are looking for more.

Images Copyright 2009-2010 by Katy Dickinson