2 posts tagged “children”

My 4 and 2 year-olds can now navigate youtube to go from video to video... of BUCKETHEAD!

He is their absolute favorite and they run around in a circle screeching, "It's buckethead!  He's silly cuz he has a bucket on his head!  He's playing guitar really fast!" the whole time.

They now want me to wear a bucket on my head while I play.

Sorry to disappoint them, but re-purposed KFC hat or not, I can just not make my fingers move that fast.

I only discovered him for myself recently.

I'd heard, during the wait for Chinese Democracy, that there was a guy who replaced Slash who wore a bucket on his head while he played, and that's as far as I got.

I'm liking the stuff he does on his own, but not so much his G'n'R era stuff and his versions of their old material.

He's technically competent doing Slash's solos, it's just not... you know... he didn't write it.

But doing his own stuff... well... shit.  He may wear a bucket, but he's got some soul; when he's not doing the overly technical speed-shredding.

So I'm glad I found him, and glad that he's out of GnR now, so that I can like him.

 

Opposites.

Positive / Negative
Light / Dark
Good / Bad
Divine / Evil
Hot / Cold

We think of these concepts as pure, neatly separated elements.

Segregated, idyllic, and simple.

One is here, the other is there.

If we hold on to that notion, it is we who are simple.

These terms are more accurately a spectrum within a whole of contiguous extremes.

Bend a straight line completely and you achieve a circle.

Reality is complex, convoluted, and corrupt.

In truth, extremes are homogeneous.

These are interconnected, interdependent swirls that envelope us.

The human condition cannot hope to distinguish the one wholly from the other.

Today, my 4 month old rolled from her back to her tummy, attempted some push-ups, then rolled onto her

back and stuck her toes in her mouth.

She repeated the process a few moments later, I with the digital camera at the ready this time to record the achievement for posterity and the distant grandparents. 

To vary the degree of difficulty in the routine, she added a forward lunge while on her belly, pivoting on her wrists and forearms, and achieved directed forward motion with this second sequence.

Not one, or two, but three developmental milestones combined in sequence.

She's a showoff.  Looked right at the camera the whole time she did this.

Don't know where she picked up that DNA.

Friday we should hear back from her pediatrician, who will be reviewing X-rays taken at the hospital this morning to verify whether her skull plates are prematurely fusing together, preventing her head circumference from expanding, which will lead to a buildup of pressure on her brain as it grows.

So, was today good or bad?

Am I feeling positive or negative?

Is this optimistic or pessimistic?

Is it right or wrong to be able to laugh today?

Is it vanity or compassion to hope that she won't need surgery and a protective helmet because the other kids will think she looks funny and tease her?

Simple answers, like simple definitions, are for the simpleminded and almost always entirely wrong.