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Music of the Week
I found a Pinky-Winky video but could not inflict it on you. But the search turned up The Wonky Donkey, first in animated-video form . . .
. . . and then in Granny-reading form. Remember this?
So is this music? No.
Quote of the Week
We have to realize that the child’s world is without economic purpose. A child doesn’t understand – happy ignorance – that people are paid to do things. To a child the policeman rules the street for self-important majesty; the furnace man stokes the furnace because he loves the noise of falling coal and the fun of getting dirty; the grocer is held to his counter by the lure of aromatic spices and the joy of giving. And in this very ignorance there is a grain of truth. The child’s economic world may be the one that we are reaching out in vain to find. Here is a path in the wood of economics that some day might be followed to new discovery. Meantime, the children know it well and gather beside it their flowers of beautiful illusion.
Source: On the Front Line of Life by Stephen Leacock; in John Robson's Words Worth Noting
Posted: 2025 Nov 15
Tag Archives: Reptiles
One Last Time
An end-of-season visit to our favourite state park. Continue reading
Another Another Morning Stroll
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. – Ecclesiastes 1:9 OK, maybe nothing new as such, but still nice, eh? This past week, touring the not-new … Continue reading
Another Morning Stroll
My own “catch” from a few hours of “fishing” at Huntington Beach State Park. Continue reading
A Morning Stroll
Another short visit to Huntington Beach State Park: Film at 11! Well, at any time you like, actually. Continue reading
Unpredictably Predictable
My last 2023 visit to Huntington Beach State Park last week was much like all the others, this year and other years: Wonderfully predictable and unpredictable. Predictable in the generalities; unpredictable in the specifics. Predictable: Seeing alligators. Unpredictable: Seeing so … Continue reading
More Time Well Wasted
Another 90 minutes at the beach park. Continue reading
And a Bargain at That
Getting our money’s worth. Continue reading
Lizards et al.
A lizard by any other name would move as fast. Continue reading
What Do You Want?
A whole new take on, um, fishy stares. Continue reading