livelong learning

There is an ideology that acclaims human beings` capability to learn to be at its peak at the beginning of their twenties.

That’s wrong.

dogs and children. children and dogs.

They somehow very much are the same. I many times have gained many weirda looks from people when acclaiming this insight but I keep deeply being convinced by both my work experiences:  the ones wth “difficult kids” and the ones wth  “difficult dogs”.

el sol

A friend recently has contacted me after a long time. The last time we saw and talked to each other was around 1999. That was when she got married–a great party, one of a kind. After that she went to Spain to live with her husband. And n0w she is back in town, for two years. And she brought her family.

When we hooked up it turned out she is into anthropology also. I asked for her reasons to come back to where we grew up. And she came up with a wonderful story. She said, when her sons began to draw as children do, and drew the sun with a moustache, (“..of course– el sol!”) [die Sonne], she thought she wants them to also know where she comes from. Her spanish anthropology teacher, she added, who had lived in Japan for some time with her family, did understand her well. Her children have done red suns.