lunafornia dream = five of my favorite things

This teeny little video combines five of my favorite things: the moon, dreams, solemn rabbits, paper cuts and animation. Oh, Johnny Kim - what a lovely treat!

Lunafornia Dream from Johnny Kim on Vimeo.

maybe this is loneliness

Yesterday I had a strange feeling...something not quite right...couldn't figure it out. But when the afternoon sun hit the wall I wondered, "maybe this is loneliness?" I'm not a particularly lonely person, so it was interesting to investigate the feeling. And during my investigations, I found this little video (from the BBC program "Days Like This" and voiced by a lovely Irish man):

House of Dreams

This week, I got to visit a preschool class. The students listened to this wonderful book, The Big Orange Splot. Then we adjourned to "the message center" to draw pictures of our own dream houses. My drawing includes:

• flowers
• an observatory tower with two telescopes for watching the night sky
• a dance floor in the yard (with colorful lantern lights for illuminating night tangos)
• a hammock 
• a bridge to reach to the addition (the addition was built for the sole purpose of having a balcony, something a 4-year-old told me I MUST have)
• a winding road
• so much vegetation
• a shadow from my hand that looks a little like a rain cloud - I guess the flowers need rain...

Even with all these magnificent things, my drawing unsurprisingly paled in comparison to the pre-schooler's dream houses. Theirs will filled with trains, bridges, towers, elevators, secret hiding places for puppies and special wonderful bedrooms with twinkle lights throughout.

Do you not know this book? Here is a wonderful version I found, voiced by some delightfully accented students who I don't know.

Kooky - Teaser

I'm waiting with trembling excitement for Jan Sverak's latest film to be released in the U.S. Kooky looks like my kind of magic!