The Eastern Edge

Today begins a three day weekend that will be jammed with 10 hours of Aikido. Most of the rest of the time will be taken up by a new addiction, reading Yotsuba To!
(albeit, no where near the dojo.)

If only we could all look at each day with the wide-eyed wonder and enthusiasm that Yotsuba does. Of course without all the bumping into things, falling down, and generally doing and saying things that would anyone but a cute 5 year old committed.

Then again, if we could all be in Yotsuba's world, we'd never realize how nice it would be to have a little bit of it. That's what makes Yotsuba so bittersweet to those of us that have accumulated cynicism along with age.

Sometimes it sucks to be a grown up...