more normal than not

We say this prayer with the kids when they’re ready to go to sleep.

I’d tell them to shut up if they sounded like this.

This was early marketing at it’s worst….and one of the first instances where a child was given a toy that set the tone of what the experience was going to be ….and didn’t allow them to use their own imaginations to control the “action”.

These dolls were marketed for about 6 weeks and cost what, in our current money, would be about $200.00.

The recording devices were fragile….and often didn’t survive the shipping to market.

Man.

It’s a spooky thing to hear a doll like this.

It’s not a good thing.

Here’s Mo Rocca talking to someone about these dolls.

Knowing about the history doesn’t make them any less spooky.

Shame on you, Mr. Edison.

Shame on you.

Here’s a Swedish woman named Jonna Jinton taking an ice bath.

That looks cold.

It was so hot on the mail route, riding around for 7 hours without air conditioning, delivering all the mail and packages.

This doesn’t look cold enough to cool me down on a hot day like today.

Maybe a Norwegian/Danish hybrid like me needs a nice fjord to swim around in every once in a while to get my head on straight?

Maybe a sauna… like a mail jeep ride….and then a dip in the icy lake would do me a wonder of good.

I’d like to be cool for once in my life.

Too cool.

Here’s another video from the woman who did yesterday’s video.

This one features her children.

This type of video is good….meditative….good display of skills.

It’s good to be out in the woods.

Here’s the first episode of a series produced by Telus Storyhive.

This episode is about a family in Northern British Columbia…..living off the grid.

More at http://www.storyhive.com/ .