the kids and i said goodbye to our visiting friends at fort funston today, by the cool great green pacific ocean. dogs ran in packs and crows glided overhead. i brought gourmet doughnuts and miles and maya gave some of their toys and a book to nina and niko to make their trip home nicer.
my son is obsessed with money right now, asking a million questions about costs and incomes. i feel badly for his impressionable little brain sometimes, surrounded by ads on buses, in magazines, kids walking by with their portable video games, every adult with an ipod, ipad, iphone, basketball players with 100$ shoes that will make him jump higher "because they have air". he wants us to look these things up on the internet so he can see the cost. would things be different if we lived in the suburbs? up in the mendocino woods? a deserted island? it seems so hard for my little boy not to want more and more when that is the way the economy is designed. miles said the way it works is that he keeps thinking and thinking about wanting a cool new thing until he gets it, and then he starts thinking about another cool thing. we need to teach him how to resist wanting things, somehow, so he can fill his brain with more sustainable and peaceful thoughts. or maybe that is just a mother's fantasy.
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