Yesterday at the Ramona Pageant they let the kids sit in the stands and watch the play as the actors practiced their lines. Later we were invited to eat dinner at a friend's house. He was making spaghetti, knowing this wasn't my kids favorite I offered to buy him something at the drive-thru. My kid surprised me and said he would eat what was offered. As we drove we talked about plants. I told him about something I read on the internet about using an electrical charge to get a venus fly trap to close. He was curious at first to know if it made all the traps on the plant close. Then he realized it was something that was ultimately stressful on the plant, the traps only close a numbered amount of times, tricked without being nourished. The conversation went on to cutting flowers. On carnivorous plants (ones that live in containers) a growing flower can be stressful. Many books recommend the flower removed before blooming. We talked about the idea of giving cut flowers as a gift, and my kid asked:
"Why do guys give girls flowers to make them fall in love with them, why don't guys learn how to play the guitar?" In the Ramona play Alessandro gives Ramona flowers. There is a scene with a silly young boy that has a guitar, but he was more like a prankster and throws a dead snake on a girl. I'm intrigued by how the subtle details effected him. The things that shape a young persons ideas, versus the continual bombardment of imagery and sounds. As for me my eyes welled with tears hearing the rhythm created from 8 horses galloping across the hard packed dirt.