A Thought

O Magazine has a feature of "A Million Ways to Save the World." This comment was in this month's issue:

"Our culture has vastly overvalued the lives of the rich and famous. Our children no longer hunger to be good citizens, but merely well-known ones. In our misguided quest for heros, we've made fame the most coveted virtue. But when our heroes cease to do heroic things, and we still venerate them, where does that leave our culture? It is time to restore balance. Let's boycott celebrity and celebrate instead all the unnamed warriors trying to make a positive impact on our daily lives."

--Lynn Nottage

Call your neighbors and rejoice...

Ryan and I have posted NO pictures for quite a while for a simple reason: our camera has been missing. We have called all houses where we visited for the past few months, searched through bags, pockets, drawers, cars, desks, dark corners and even under the bed. Repeatedly. This weekend we were heading up to Colorado to see Alyssa and the boys and decided that we would HAVE to have one, so off to Best Buy we trotted. Twenty minutes later, I reached into the bag I went through at least 3 times...and pulled out...the missing camera. That same day we found our theater guest passes that we had also been frantically looking for.
Colordado was nice, seeing Alyssa, Barry and the boys, meeting up with the cousins so we could go to the 'zeum and look at dinosaurs and dying easter eggs fun colors. Now that we have a camera, we can post pics again. Soon.

The Right Tool for the Job

Ryan found his about 2:30 Tuesday night when trying to get partially dried grout out of "natural stone markings" in our new tile.
Thankfully we have a well-stocked 24-hour Wal-Mart close by. (Emily cover your eyes).

Free Play for kids

A friend passed this article along. Since we are about the only kid-free couple we know, maybe a few of you would like it. :-) I notice a coorelation between t.v. watching/wii playing/video game addiction and a decline in imaginative activities with the kids I teach.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19212514