Bowling anyone?

Hi everyone!

Hope your Summer is getting off to a good start!

(June 21)  is Solstice. The official start date!

To make a long story short, we have collected 10 real bowling pins and an old bowling ball, and we have been bowling in the backyard...

(thank you Diane and Mike!!!!).

We've been calling it "Urban Bowling"

It even sounds like bowling, and I'm sure my neighbors are wondering why they are hearing bowling noises...lol

The most interesting thing, is that my neighbors and their kids, who never sit on their porch, or venture out of their yards, have come over to throw a few balls.....and for a minute, forget they're grown up....clapping and jumping when they get a strike...... even getting a little exercise setting the pins up for the next guy.....

The point is, summer is a time for play, a time to find your inner child.... Kids love to see us having fun. It inspires them to be better adults... It's hard to take yourself serious when your bowling between your legs.

Here is the thought for the day.........

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon.

A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb.

And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air.

Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas.

And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight.

Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in.

With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest.

And  people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with their Imagination.

Robert Fulghum

Namaste,
Marianne Goldweber