Monday, June 21, 2010

June 22

For all you Jones lovers out there...



Raspberries.







Jones' vacant-eyes-double-chin stare.







Enjoy? Why yes, yes I do.




Around the house. Shirtless.




Must. Destroy. Everything.






I had to post this photo so that I can tell the disturbing Aesop's Fable contained in this little Thai book. The English translation reads (copied verbatim including punctuation)...

The Bullfrog and the Ox: A strong young ox was walking and nibbing grass close to the swamp. The baby bullfrog saw him and were alarmed.
The bullfrog kids looked at the young ox admiring
When the mother bullfrog saw him she was stunned because before in this swamp it was only she who had seemed to be the biggest.
Mother look at that ox he's so huge her kids told her.
That's not very big. Looking! Mom can do that also
Saying this, she puffed herself up.
Look kids! Am I as big as the ox yet. her asked?
Not yet, Mom You are not even half of him the baby bullfrogs cried out together.
Look again. The mother bullfrog said while feeling uncomfortable from swelling herself.
The mother bullfrog tried again but never once succeeded.
She held her last breath and then swelled again with all her strength until her stomach exploded and she died.
The moral of this story: The ambitious without being humble will always encounter loss.

5 comments:

Shauna said...

yum. he is scrumptious.

and that is the most depressing childrens story i have ever read.

stephanie said...

that green cabinet is pretty cool! anyway you can take that home with you!?

Granpa Denny said...

As a very publicly known lover of Jones, Thank you. Great pictures! And you look great in freckles, Whitney.

Jen said...

Wow, i totally see your mom in the side profile of you...

And what a cool (yet rather disturbing) story. I definitely miss the morals in most childrens stories these days... The originals rarely ended happily.

mallory said...

first, you look so tan next to baby whitey mcwhite. (and no i am not trying to shower you with empty compliments to get back into your blogging good graces. i would never.)

and you should definitely try to market those thai fairytale translations in america -- i think parents would love them. sort of like, "and that's why you always leave a note."