Dear Jonas,

You turned one this week. We celebrated by going into the city and fighting the mob at the Magnolia Bakery, eating ice cream at the Highline park, and having dinner with some of your best buddies at Diner. Your Sara-nanny gave you a wooden drum. It is now your favorite toy.

You also had your one-year appointment at the doctor. Your height is in the 75th percentile. Your weight is in the 13th, little man. Soon you'll grow.

This morning, in your pre-breakfast frenzy, you went straight for the bookshelf. Everything you pulled down is still in a pile at the foot of the bed. From here i can see Read My Lips by Riki Anne Wilchins, D.W. Winnicott's Playing and Reality, Patricia Williams's The Alchemy of Race and Rights, Discipline and Punish, Gender Trouble, The Communist Manifesto, Writing and Difference, and Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. i'm taking this as your proposal for a future reading list. We can start as soon as you're ready.