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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Today's #flashfiction Hands On Learning

“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.”
The Pied Piper* #quote



        Today I spent a great deal of time trying to negotiate a lift on the tariff for mined Moon cheese. However it seems that the government won't budge so we'll have to keep dealing with these high prices for it.


Hands On Learning

         Little Barry teetered between the age of a baby and a toddler. His father, an architect, bought him more building blocks than any other toy. So many building blocks they filled half the child's room. The architect felt his son must learn the craft of building.
And so, with the blocks scattered in front of him little Barry built. After making some errors and learning how the ins-and-outs of stacking, he mastered the craft. A chip of the old block created a gargantuan city of block structures that formed enough towers to make a city and a large tower in the center that dominated it all.
        Then with a simple accident he knocked over one of his structures. This felt different than an error in learning how to build. The tower tumbling down created an epic spectacle for Barry. A crash loud and wondrous. Soon he emulated and knocked every tower in his city to the floor, savoring every block's rattle, shake, bash, and rumble.

        His father succeeded in teaching little Barry to create...but also to destroy

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