Friday, January 7, 2011

archival dispatches








When he was about 5 1/2, my son Eli created Eli Township, a city in Eli Land. It began with some wooden building blocks in his bedroom, and for a few short months included something he called Eli Township Radio — a daily broadcast of music and (very) local news. You could catch the broadcast through Eli's bedroom door during afternoon 'quiet time.' Or sometimes at the kitchen table, when he was accompanied by his faithful radio sidekick (Dad).

Here are a few of those dispatches, circa May 2004, before they all floated off into the aether.







Listen to the clip.