On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
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Many thanks to commentor Shari for something cheerful to start the day.
What else is on the agenda?
Betty Cracker
Sometimes it seems like a kid grows up just that quick too. Unless you’re on a long car trip, of course.
Raven
Nice, it’s inspiring since I got my first dslr camera yesterday!
Nethead Jay
Just saw this on maddowblog. It’s wonderful :D
Schlemizel
AS a father I’d say they caught the easy 12 – its the next 12 that make you old. 8-{D
Xenos
Very much like my daughters –
12 years of never once stopped talkinghighly verbal delights.JGabriel
@Xenos:
That’s what happens when you feed and water them.
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Xenos
Once they hit 12 they realize how boring you are and start talking to one another, and give you some peace now and then. Until you have that three week family vacation when you can bore them to death all over again.
Santiago
Bobo in May 2012 Playboy:
Playboy: Is your main complaint that he [Obama] has been too liberal?
Brooks: The basis of my conservatism is epistemological modesty, the idea that we can’t know much. I’m suspicious of people in Washington thinking they can understand complex systems well enough to regulate them. Obama has a lot more confidence in technocrats to understand and solve complex problems. With financial reforms, he gave a lot of power to regulators. In Medicare reforms he gave a lot of powers to a board of experts – more regulators. I think no one’s that smart. I think that’s why he’s a Democrat and I’m not. Democrats believe that if you get smart people in a room they can solve a problem, and I don’t agree.
Linda Featheringill
That was wonderful. Thanks. Life is a miracle, isn’t it?
Linda Featheringill
@Santiago:
Does that make you conservative or does that mean you’re depressed?
[Actually, I think the dreaded Democrats believe that intelligent and hard-working people can make things better, even if the problem isn’t completely solved. There is a difference.]
dr. bloor
Sigh…that’s wonderful. Great idea, and a great subject.
Back to reality, though. I now have to go extract 13 y.o. junior bloor from his sheets to get ready for school, which may or may not require power tools.
SiubhanDuinne
@Santiago:
So implicitly, Bobo is saying that he believes all, or most, problems are insoluble? I would hate to be him; what a sad, pathetic life his must be.
ETA: Or, what @Linda Featheringill said, more concisely.
danielx
My daughter is five weeks from h.s. graduation and it’s still occasionally a battle to get her out of bed in the morning…unlike those days of yore when she would come in to arouse myself and mrs. x because “you gotta see this!”. This usually being something on saturday morning cartoons. But it still seems like yesterday.
@Santiago:
Bobo really does touch all the bases here, doesn’t he? Epistemological modesty, indeed. That’s got even more syllables than Hayekian modesty, and let it be noted in passing that Bobo is not exactly walking around bent over double with modesty…for a guy who likes the word so much. As for “no one’s that smart”, there are plenty of smart people working in government – Bobo just doesn’t like what they do. After all, it was the regulators and their damned regulations who crashed the real estate market, wasn’t it? Of course it was. Them and poor people, of course.
This one is definitely going on my list of David Brook’s Greatest Hits. So much gibberish jammed into one short paragraph.
Suffern ACE
@SiubhanDuinne: If it’s too complicated for him to understand, it must be too difficult for a group of people who have spent more than 20 hours researching in the topic to understand or do anything productive. His stance is NOT epistemological modesty. The limits of human understanding conveniently coincide with his limits and those limits are universal. How is that modest at all?
Santiago
more Bobo
Calouste
@Santiago:
Shorter Brooks: I’m stupid, so everyone else must be stupid as well.
deep
It’s amazing that you can see the gradual transition from indifference to confusion to realizing that this film project is not a normal thing for a parent to be doing to accepting what her parents are trying to do.
the Conster
@Santiago:
Shorter Brooks: Everything’s all about Meeeeeeee!
deep
Oh yeah, the original on Vimeo seems to be higher quality:
vimeo.com/40448182
Suffern ACE
@Santiago: Was Brooks a child groom?
curiousleo
Open thread question: What about local election news? My hobby horse is the North Carolina proposed state constitutional amendment defining het. marriage as “the ONLY domestic union” recognized in NC. May 8 is the election day. Early voting is already underway.
This fight is winnable. The over-reach in how the amendment is written is massive. (will impact domestic violence laws, current het. domestic partnerships, and NC big banks are against it).
The NOM haters have lots of outside help but those of us fighting against it aren’t getting the same level of outside help.
Please help if you can. Either by calling someone you know that lives in NC or phone banking from your remote locales or even throwing in a couple of bucks to the current matching donation campaign so we can get commercials on tv.
protectncfamilies.org/
gene108
@deep:
Thanks for the Vimeo link.
I guess this video on the link hasn’t gone viral yet.
Vince (assuming younger brother) 0 to 9 y.o,
His “poise” in front of the camera is a striking contrast to Lotte’s. An interesting difference between boys and girls.
Amir Khalid
@danielx:
Uh, I think the word you wanted was rouse. Arouse means something very different and, in a family context, possibly inappropriate.
rikyrah
I just thought this was so sweet when I first saw it.
Grover Gardner
It seems to go just that fast. :-(
billiecat
Thanks. I already thought my kids were growing up too fast.
Herbal Infusion Bagger
What other people have said: sometimes it feels like they’re growing up that fast.
Took my kid skateboarding for the first time a week back.
He took to it like a duck to water, which was a surprise, ‘cos he’s not the most coordinated. I was glad, because I’d spent a lot of $$$ of the board, helmet and pads and I was afraid he’d fall over a few times and give up. It was great seeing his enthusiasm as he got more and more comfortable on the board. I took a video, but while the moment was great, I was acutely aware how transient this was, and feeling nostalgia for the moment as I was experiencing it.
It reminded me of the haiku by Basho:
Even in Kyoto
– hearing the cuckoo’s cry –
I long for Kyoto