Weekend Kat Blogging: Love and Music

As important as food is in this household, music is just as important. With a guitarist father, and a mother and big sister who both sing, Kat is growing up in a home where music is as essential to life as breath. Morganna and I sing and dance as we cook, and Zak plays guitar, flute or didg whenever he gets a chance. (He also sings, but doesn’t consider himself a singer.)

And as much as Kat loves the singing and the dancing, and joins in, her favorite is when Zak plays guitar. Her eyes light up when she sees a guitar and she demands to touch it. She caresses the body of it, her fingers fluttering over the wood, and she plucks the strings, coaxing from them tinkles of music.

Her greatest joy is making music with Zak, whom she most consistently calls “Papa” or “Baba.” The two of them play music and sing together, which is one of the sweetest and most loving things I have ever seen.

Love and music, are the twin foods of the soul and I am happy to see my Kat well fed on both.

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1. Hi there!
   Stumbled upon you through the wonders of the ‘net!
   Great blog, can’t wait to try your stir fry techniques.

   Steve, aka Delk
   http://loftonlaflin.blogspot.com/

   Comment by delk — July 22, 2007 #

2. The last photo, the one of Zak and Kat playing together is cherish-able to the extreme.

   Hi, Zak!!

   Comment by wwjudith — July 22, 2007 #

3. Sooooooo cute! Lovely pictures of the two of them together.

   Comment by Diane — July 22, 2007 #

4. Thank you for sharing Kat and family with us. I’ve taken to showing her picture around the office as she is so cute - after my business partner (father of three cute kids) asked who the cute baby on my browser was.

   Comment by Dan Jenkins — July 22, 2007 #

5. She looks so happy!

   Comment by Alexis — July 23, 2007 #

6. Re: Dan: I too have taken up talking about Kat to my husband as if I know her! I just love her facial expressions so much. Barbara, you do such a great job of conveying her vibrant personality and I really enjoy hearing about your family.

   Comment by Zoe — July 24, 2007 #

7. Wow–I had no idea that Kat was becoming such a celebrity! But, thank you all for the lovely comments.

   It is funny, but when I first started out interacting heavily on the ‘net, I was playing roleplaying games on MUSHes (way back in the day before Everquest and the like–it was all text back then) and my rl friends used to tease Zak and I about our “imaginary friends.”

   But I made friends from all over the world that way. And then, I started interacting on message boards, and made other friends from all over–and some of these folks are still quite close to me, a decade or more on. I’ve met them in the flesh, visited with them, cooked dinner for them, gone to festivals together, and well, generally, just been friends–and they are just as “real” as my “real life” friends.

   And then I started blogging…

   And the wheel turns and the virtual world brings me new friends, and it is all beautiful–and real.

   That is the best part of the Internet. It brings humanity together in a way that is amazing to me. It reminds me that underneath all of our supposed differences, we are linked on a very fundamental basis by our humanity. And that is a beautiful thing.

   Comment by Barbara — July 27, 2007 #

8. YAY for MUSHes and MOOs and BBSs and the like. I met my current love 15 years ago on a BBS, and we’ve been together most of that time. Playing online games I’ve met people from around the world as well, and loved every minute of it.

   You give me new reasons to love you all the time, you wonderful crazy fabulous lady!

   Comment by starrrie — August 6, 2007 #

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