I have three nephews that bring many tears and much joy to their parents (5, 3, and 1) - I am sure all Cubies with kids can relate. This week I was over when the 5 year old ran inside and announced it was Big Airplane Day. I suppose a good size jet had flown over and that was enough to christen the day. He ran back out and returned again noting one big airplane looked like Santa’s sleigh. Now things were really picking up.

I went out in the cold and lined up the patio chairs so I could look at the sky. Indeed there were many airplanes around. My nephew noted that one propeller plane was circling the house. Its wing seemed dipped right at us as it went around and around. We counted at least a half dozen airplanes and birds and he asked me when he could drive an airplane, not theoretically but expecting a date and time. A silly but most enjoyable moment that reminded me of school and the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (slightly altered below):

For oft, when in my cube I sigh
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure strains,
And dances with the gliding planes.

Tags: kids, office humor, parenting