Picture of the Day: "If you dream it, you can do it." Walt Disney


Randy and I were working in the yard this weekend, when Turner spied his wading pool in the storage room. I told him it wasn’t warm enough to use the pool, but he replied, in his zen master form, “Mommy, if you say that, then it won’t be warm enough!”

I laughed and went back to pulling weeds. A few minutes later, he had pulled the pool from the storage room, through the garage, out onto the driveway. He disappeared into the house, returning ten minutes later wearing his Nemo swimsuit, then ran up the driveway to fetch the garden hose.

Of course, at this point I had to admit that it must be warm enough, because there was the pool and the swimsuit and the hose. I really hate feeling that I’m losing my sense of logic, or that my two-year-old has a better grip on the nature of reality. But I do believe in rewarding initiative, or letting initiative reward itself.

I found the following quote from Henry David Thoreau on a web page titled "Manifesting Reality: How We Make Things Happen."

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live a life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him, or old laws will be expanded and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings."

It's just one more reason we don't really push him to eat meat -- which he doesn't like. After all, what if he really is Buddha reincarnated?