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My report card cover from grade school. This is probably my earliest drawing that still exists. It was preserved by pure chance, and I only found out it existed when we cleared out Mom and Pop's old house. On the back in block and cursive writing:
HOW IT EVEr
BE SO DREADED,
ThErE NOTHING
LiKE REPOrtCARD

I guess I wasn't as smart as I seem to remember. This was either 2nd or 3rd grade. If it's 2nd grade, that makes it more forgivable. But then I suppose intelligence doesn't always equal ability. I went on to have something of a short-lived reputation as a sketcher (I was voted Best Artist in my senior year of high school, somehow). My drawing slowed down and pretty much stopped a few years ago, though I guess if I buckled down I could probably produce something. 

Anyway, I found this again while looking at my other blogs. There's Power of Babel ( http://brer-powerofbabel.blogspot.com/ ) which began in January 2008 and is still ongoing, though it has become mostly an archive of my weekly image search. Then there's Daily Window on a World of Wonder (https://dailywindowonaworldofwonder.blogspot.com/), which only lasted from March 2012 to July 2014. There are also two private family blogs, Some Pumpkins (2011) and Finder’s Keep (October 2008 - September 2020 and continuing, though the last post was on 2020)  https://finderskeep-jb.blogspot.com/. Between all of these I have quite a record of memories.