The Youth in Asia

Summer is always a transient time.  Aunt Emily rocks up from the TV room couch to get coffee.  I rock up from a squashed up VRBO single room from my family of four (also to get coffee).  We come and go, and move on to the next cabin, tent, plane, train and rail car.

As chance would have it, I'm living at a deer friend's house in North Seattle for July, and my deer friend has a 17-year-old nephew.  Said nephew plays video games (MMP varietal) during most waking hours (his waking hours and mine don't cross over so much).

I admire the High-C's and humor the gaming provides him, and mostly I find myself thinking "gosh dangit, these young folk can't even go outside to enjoy the fun of summer sunshine!"

As the philosopher quipped, youth IS wasted on the young.

Frozen in time

My four-year-old cannot stop bellowing Let It Go, the rebel-in-me hook track from the movie Frozen.

I sense that the catchy pop track is on fire in places I've yet to discover (we've heard it now in Spanish, Japanese, Finnish and a few other idioms).

Good and Bad of this week: May 22, 2014

GOOD

An amazing trip to Quintay with my father and stepmother. They are evolving into wonderful grandparents.

Marveling at how much support my wife provides me and our children.

Spirited competition within our Sales team. It's like watching Serie A.

BAD

an old friend fighting to stay in recovery. I have hope for him.

Anti semitism after Maccabees defeated real Madrid for the EMEA basketball cup.

My daughter has strep throat. No fun.

THANKFUL I get to learn from all of the above.

Haiku from the land of haiku

Shopping with two kids
Survival of the fittest
Time for a nice nap

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