Friday, October 8, 2010

Books and Scrolls

Levi has been better today.  He had a better night and then woke up fairly happy.  He happily played around until it was time to drop him off for school.  Then he decided that he was too sick to be in school.  Anyway, finally he decided that it would be fine to stay.  Friday is a good day for him because for the next term I drop him off and pick him up from school, like "all the other parents".  I am trying to have Friday off for the next term, because I have to work Saturdays but I'm not very good at it.  I had yesterday off so I went in today to check that everything was ready for the Shark Bait Kids.  Next week there is a kid already booked in but after that, then I have Fridays off.

Levi has been into making books lately, usually about the Rocket Car or Super Heroes.  He does the drawings and I have to write the words.  Then he sticks it all together with more and more tape.  Tonight he switched to something else.  It is always something that makes you think.

Tonight he switched to taping the pages end to end and rolling up the pages.  Now by itself it's just a slight shift in what he was doing, but of course there was more.  He wanted me to write on it.  Now that is always a bit of a shift and I asked him why he wasn't drawing on it first. 

He said, "These are different.  You think things and then write them down"

I said, "Isn't that what we do in the other books?"

"No", he said, "This is different.  You write important things that you want people to know"  

He was very serious about it all.  I think that I am going to have to change his name to Solon.  He has switched to scrolls and has started to write his philosophy.  There is a part of me that wonders whether or not the best possible options for the world, would be to start to listen to the deeper thoughts of an empathetic 5 year old who thinks deep enough thoughts that he wants to write them on scrolls.

His thoughts?  He thinks that we should be friends with the inside of ourselves.

Why I chose Solon?  His philosophy? 

"Know Thyself"

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