Birthday Bonfire at Muir Beach

On his 11th birthday, Sam went kayaking in Birch Bay, Washington.














The following day, he tandem-paraglided down Grouse Mountain in North Vancouver.

While those were remarkable experiences, he didn't get to celebrate with you.

Please join Sam for a bonfire at Muir Beach on Saturday, August 2nd from 4pm-Sunset (8:15pm). (Your presence is the only present requested.)

If that date doesn't work, don't dismay. We're already planning a make-up party for people who can't make the first one.

Let us know if you would like help with transportation or will meet us there. Thanks for your friendship.

SNOWBOARDING!

On Saturday, we went snow-
boarding. We had a lot of fun.

We got up before four o'clock in the morning to go catch a but that would take us to Lake Tahoe. My friend, Leo spent the night at my house on Friday so that he wouldn't have to get up even earlier to come over to my house.

Leo had gone snowboarding before but the only thing he remembers is that he had hot cocoa. It was almost like we had both never gone snowboarding. We had an awesome time at snowboarding camp. It felt like bare feet, strapped by some invisible force, skating across a slick, steep ice rink where you fell down a lot. I loved it.

We got back at eleven o'clock in the evening. I'm excited to go again.

Letter to Edvard Munch

Dear Mr. Munch,

One thing I like about your art is the way your pictures make the person looking at them feel like they are there.

All of your paintings make me feel very emotional.

The first painting of yours that I liked was The Scream. I feel like I can hear the scream even though there is no sound. You are that good at making it feel real.

Then I started looking at more of your work and I noticed that it can be both terrifying and beautiful at the same time. I’ve never seen anything like it.

Sometimes the paintings make me feel like I am walking on a sandy beach. Other times, they make me feel like I am in a horror movie. Everyone sees your paintings in a different way.

I like the way you use such soft edges in your images. You make everything swirl and seem like a circle. The colors in your pictures are true to life. I think your sunsets look beautiful and your horizon line is just right. Your art seems to pop out at me but it doesn’t quite, since it is really a two dimensional picture.

To be honest, there is nothing that I don’t like about your paintings, except that maybe I wish there were more.

Sincerely,

Sam Engle