The end of nature

In the last few days my wife is reading Bill McKibben's The End of Nature:

Couple of days ago my 3 year old daughter saw the book cover and corrected my wife: "You are not reading it right. Hold it this way: "

What I find striking about the story is with our age, education, habits we gradually lose the ability to recognize simple, elegant solutions. Seems like few people praise these solutions anyway. The majority just follows eventually. Unfortunately, by the time this happens, it may be too late for the solution to be implemented. Something to keep in mind... A lesson learned from a three year old.

On a related note, my daughter's comment force me to read again the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Little Prince. He did a great job looking at the world from a different point than the every day reference point we take out of habit.

In conclusion, we need to evolve or we may lose it all.

Another week + Halloween

Another week with just steady progress. Though moving toward a complete Peer Belt solution, nothing exceptional has happened...

Unless one counts the Halloween maze prepared yesterday at the Harisson plaza Taekwondo school. The maze with the strobe lights, coffin, fog, live zombies makes the school a kids' favorite destination October 31st each and every year thanks to Master Myre and Instructor Cabral. It was great spending couple of hours tying down maze "walls". There cannot be anything better than seeing all the kids running around the labyrinth laughing, screaming and ultimately having fun. It was great! What does the office environment do to us, so we forget enjoying these small things?!