Undergrad regrets

In his article Whatsoever Things Are True, Todd Babiak talks about his regrets during his undergraduate years.  I too have regrets but looking back, I don't think I could have changed much.  May sound fatalistic, but my circumstances were the way they were and I could have made only minor adjustments rather than e.g., intern overseas or do some risky financial venture. 

However, a general behavior change I could have relatively easily done was to try to coordinate to do activities with people.  For example, if I was going to the Van Vliet gym, among my friends, I could have tried to find gym-mates despite it being a little more difficult to arrange.  That is, not necessarily do activities I had no interest to do (e.g. run for student council, ha) but do activities I liked with others.  I was/am prone to working alone to get things done faster rather than adding a socializing element and possibly being hindered.

Violence-free

Scanned from pamphlet from Lurana Shelter Society

Seeing my little toddler sometimes throwing temper tantrums and knowing that I can get unnecessarily angry at times too, I know it's easy to be violent and much more difficult to behave "with grace".  Good or bad, we learn by example.

Haute art versus art for children

I used to go to art galleries (Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, etc.) and while many of the pieces were interesting, I would only linger at a handful of them.  I'm not sure if it was because of the overwhelming number of pieces and the limited two to three hours I usually had such that I ended up walking past the majority of exhibits with only a glance.

However, nowadays, with my toddler interested in looking at children's books, I am lucky to have the opportunity to read with him and marvel at the illustrations in these books.  I am often astonished by the imagination the illustrators have put into their creations.  Considering the Voice of Fire versus the Secret Seahorse, I'll take the latter any day. 

It's nice to once again enjoy books with both an author and an illustrator.