kinders write by candlelight
find their own shadows
make a tiger on the ceiling.
—
“find beauty not only in the thing itself
but in the pattern of the shadows,
the light and dark which that thing provides.”
-junichiro tanizaki
farmer m shows the kinders what’s inside.
—
‘who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.’
-carl jung
—
oakland county farmer’s market, pontiac, michigan
kinders find magic in the japanese garden
seeing things change right before them.
—
‘change is a measure of time, and in the autumn, time seems speeded up.
what was, is not and never will be;
what is, is change.’
-edwin way teale
kinder climbs to the top and reaches back down.
—
“the way I see it, if you climb the wall,
you reach back down and help the next one up.”
-carolyn aronson
grandies
jump in.
get dirty.
fall down.
and
reach again
even higher.
“jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty,
fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.”
-ben stein
joyful young scientist
teaching and demonstrating
for even younger scientists
ends his hands-on physics and chemistry lessons
with a show-stopper
a fog-shooting cannon
crafted from a garbage can
and the crowd realizes how much they love science
and simply cannot get enough.
—
“facts are to the mind what food is to the body.”
-edmund burke
—
ann arbor public library, pittsfield branch
while watching the little league game
i caught a glimmer of shiny blue movement
out of the corner of my eye
and suddenly there appeared
a shimmery mermaid
all scales and tails
coming from far away
skipping onto the field
staying safe in the background
to see just what
this other world was all about
and in an instant
she was skipping off again
returning to the safe world she knew
in the great bathtub sea. 
“it’s fun to peek into other people’s worlds
and see how they go about doing things.”
-norah jones
