After allowing my 13 year old daughter Hannah to sit on the couch
all summer and watch TV, while surfing the net for days on end, my
guilt that nothing worthwhile was filling that pretty little head of
hers was mounting. I started looking for things to do in this
wonderful town of ours. I definitely wanted to go to the Lautner
exhibit at the Armand Hammer Museum and Hannah saw a picture of one of
his houses and was actually interested too, but then I saw something on
Daily Candy talking about an event at the Santa Monica Library and
thought “Aha! This’ll be the thing I do. This’ll be the antidote to all
those episodes of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. I was going to take
Hannah to a symposium on Food and Climate Change.”
The Santa Monica Library reminds me of the NRDC (National
Resources Defense Council) building on 2nd street. Its obvious that
the entire building is green and a tremendous amount of thought was put
into every detail. It’s modern lines and materials are beautiful and
give me a sense of hope as I see more and more buildings like it.
The hors d’oeuvres and treats were supplied by the Co-Op and I gotta say “yeccchh!” When it comes to trying to approximate a chocolate cookie without chocolate, sugar, wheat and dairy you might as well just f*#k off. Hannah made the mistake of trying one and the look on her face as she tried to masticate this dust bomb was pitiful.
Checks and balances. Have you ever thought about how amazing those
two words are? In the simplest sense, writing checks and figuring out
how much money you have left after you’ve written them. In the larger
sense, if something is depleted or out of whack, something comes along
to reestablish order.