Thursday, February 21, 2008

Balance

Overheard while Punkin was teaching Little Man to set up dominoes upright so that they fall:

P: "You have to put them like this - close enough together so that when they fall, this one will knock that one down."

LM: "oh"

P: "No, no - not too close - that won't work either. It has to be just right."

It struck me when she said it - it's profound in a way. Close, but not too close. Always looking for the balance. Isn't that the way life is?

2 comments:

Shirley said...

This is mommaroar's friend in AL! Just stopped by to say hi!
We (at least from the west) call "roll a yard" - "tp'ing" (house, yard, car, etc).
My little guy would have LOVED the monster truck jam, too!

Momma Roar said...

We always called it TP'ing a house. I think I need to travel more!!

We just saw an episode of Reading Rainbow that had a segment with dominoes. It was about chain reactions and the main book of the episode was if you give a mouse a cookie. The kids really liked it. They wanted me to get the dominoes out and I've forgotten - thanks for the reminder!! :D