Did you see the movie “Boyhood,” starring Ethan Hawke and one of the lesser Arquettes, among others? I thought it was just okay. But there was one piece of dialogue in it that I really loved and haven’t forgotten — it was centered around the boy (Mason) asking his dad about magic:
Mason: Dad, there’s no real magic in the world, right?
Dad: What do you mean?
Mason: You know, like elves and stuff. People just made that up.
Dad: Oh, I don’t know. I mean, what makes you think that elves are any more magical than something like a whale? You know what I mean? What if I told you a story about how underneath the ocean, there was this giant sea mammal that used sonar and sang songs and it was so big that its heart was the size of a car and you could crawl through the arteries? I mean, you’d think that was pretty magical, right?
Well, here’s another real thing that’s magical — Honduran white bats:
They have white fur, pointy lemon-colored ears and noses, and they live in tents they fashion out of living plants. How cool is that?
Open thread!