Kites rise highest

One of my favorite sayings is;

"kites rise highest against the wind, not with it." There are many others similar to this one, but for some reason this quote always sticks with me. I feel that it applies to so many aspects of life, and that when we are faced with challenges or obstacles and we overcome them we are stronger and wiser because of it. It could also be viewed as finding your own path and not settling for anything but what you know is the path you need to be on, no matter what others try to persuade you...
Today we embraced our high wind day and went and tried out our kite for the season... It was fun. (Although with such enthusiastic helpers wanting to fly, daddy about burned his fingers pulling the raw string on the kite!! We need to get a second handle for the "helpers"! Haha!)
Little Mr. 4 explained to me later at dinner time EXACTLY just how a kite works, and how the wind makes it fly....
I also told them the fable story about The north wind and the sun. Which is one of my all time favorites because of the moral of the story about the superiority of persuasion rather than force.

What we are learned today:

-What the wind can do to leaves and kites and candles at dinnertime...

- stories and songs about wind.

One of the boys favorites right now by George Cooper is:

“Come, little leaves,”

Said the wind one day,

Come over the meadows

With me, and play;

Put on your dresses

Of red and gold;

Summer is gone,

And the days grow cold.”

Watching the wind in the trees

May the wind blow away your worries and troubles, but never your dreams and ambitions.


~ The Little Bruns