What do you call it when several folks send you the same thing at the same time ?
Several folks sent me this Ken Robinson TED video… I really like it.. He points out that our society is unwittingly chasing the creativity out of kids by trying to bring the all to the same level. Instead, he says we should be trying to find what each kid really loves and let the excel at that.
Robinson has such a great and simple way of getting his point across..
You’ll have to forgive e…. y ” key (the one after ‘l’ and before ‘n’) isn’t working at the oent. I can get it to work but I need to really ash on it. y poor coputer takes so uch abuse.. I ust have spilled soething on it…
What can I write about that doesn’t require the letter ” ? I can’t tlak abotu ixing ilk in assive ugs .. or aking ovies of igrant agpies … or otivating irads of odern ongols.
but …. I can talk about the glorious weather.. diane and I got the dogs out for a run again today.. the rivershore trail was still covered in about 6 feet of ice and snow.. a little slow going in our 5 fingers. We had to avoid a part where the river had coe up and left refrigerator size chunks of ice on the trail . It was so great being out though.. after last weeks flu and weird weather today was brilliant blue and in the high 40’s .. it won’t be long until ost of the snow melts.. we can already see grass on about half of our land.. .. it’s a great contrast with diane’s daffodils already pokeing up in the front yard.
I just took down tow of the stor windows in our roo.. (we like to sleep in the 50’s ).. With the storms down. the sounds of outside and of spring are even more in the house..
It’s been a great winter.. I’ now ready for spring..
Blissfully quiet day.. In fact the first day in many month I can remember waking up with nothing pressing to do .
I therefore can’t make a very good accounting of my time today.. nothing much happened.
I did manage to get out for my first run in a week since I got the flu.. it felt great to be outside .
This afternoon. Diane and I went over to Jill and Mark’s to meet up with some other friends for an evening of partner yoga, wine and basketball.. I understood the yoga and the wine.. but the basketball put me to sleep ., I will never be a sports fan..
We just got hoe to find Gabe and Jack telling us about the Eu they saw in the field behind our house.. That’s right.. an Eu.. They unfortunately didn’t get pictures.. but they chased the thing up into the woods, by that tie gave was able to get his movie camera out.. Here’s a clip of one of the movies.. the prints are between 6 and 8 inches across. The bird was brown.. higher than Gabe’s waist and ran on two legs.. It had a long stride..and definitely couldn’t fly.
We know that there are a nuber of Emu farms in veront.. but none close to here..
We had an unbelievably fun and relaxing day. Diane and I went to the Inn at Essex to celebrate her birthday.. We got to spend nearly 24 hours together with just the two of us. It was a wonderful escape.. Diane is always so busy taking care of other people mentally, emotionally and practically.. that it was lovely having nothing to do , no one to see and nowhere to go. I just so love hanging out with her.. And I feel so lucky to be able to say that after 30 years of being together.
we had planned on a snowshoe this afternoon but the giant snow storm that was predicted for the day never
aterialize.. Instead we went and saw ‘The King’s speech’.. which I quite liked..
We got home around 4… and soon after were joined by a coupe of friends for an informal birthday dinner for Diane..
It was the end of a really perfect day..
Happy birthday Diane.. we all love you so very much !
