1. My lunch-time moment of serendipity on Vimeo. A brush with 129 seconds of a wonderful animated short called Origins, designed and created by Rob Showalter at The Ringling School of Design. Short, yes, but sometimes you wonder how long 2 mins and 9 seconds can stay with you. Recommended...
2} Few things compare to moments of pure happiness than watching your son (or daughter) creating and directing his own variation of a game. In this case - musical chairs involving a pack of bird cards, a keyboard and well a chair or two. The rule of the game: the pack of cards changes hands as long as the music (a repetitive pattern that little man chooses) and when it (or he) stops - the person who is left holding the cards gets the top card. Meticulously and un-ashamedly rigged, little Mr A lands up, unsurprisingly, with a collection of cards featuring his fave birds - the Macau, Cardinal or Canary :-)
3} Saying no to a tall iced coffee at the end of a few brisk rounds at the big neighbourhood park. EM was game (though she is on organic green tea) but happy that I could turn away! The Buddhists believe there is no such thing as sacrifice - its about growing up and not needing those things that you needed when you were younger - like tricycles or rainbow colour coated chocs or even tall iced coffee.
