Licking off knives
The Devil once said something about his childhood that always stuck in my mind:
When you aren’t fed what you need by spoons, you learn to lick what you can off knives.
Never really understood what he meant by that until I became a dad myself, but I think it means that children will fill themselves with something, so it’s best that you do it before they do it themselves with things you may or may not want.
To this end, I’ve been trying my darndest to give him things that I loved as a child, like the books that made me, me or shows that I loved as a kid.
Obviously, he’ll find things of his own that he’ll know and love.
But sometimes I feel it’s a losing battle against the allure of technology and…screens.
Man, screens are crack for kids.
BUT there is one single thing that I loved as a kid that the kid loves as well: Board and card games.
So, the other day, instead of playing Big Two – which we’ve been playing pretty consistently around here – we dusted off the ole Settlers of Catan.
Man, I still remember playing with Paul and my friends way back when and coming home to Alison. That was a lifetime ago.
I digress…
The kids were really into it this time because they understood the rules and strategy, so it was a lot more fun.
While I ended up winning the game, for me, the high point of the whole evening came early on when we were all desperate for bricks.
The kid was the only one with any – he had just one – so we were all trying to cut a deal with him when he looks at the Firecracker’s kid dead in the eye and goes, You wanna trade that for this brick?! No way, bro, these are precious!
AND, I just happened to snap a pic right when he said it – that’s the pic directly above.
Laughed so hard I almost started crying.
That will be in the top ten memories for me and this kid for a while, I think.
Location: at a new studio, filming more shorts and video
Mood: drained
Music: with you, I am whole (Spotify)
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