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Tokyo, 2009.11.18

This morning, Kenny solved a two-part problem.

At the daycare, I gave him his towel to place on its hook. He toddled over to the row of hooks, but discovered that another child had put a towel on his hook! Giving it a moment's thought, he reached up and put the mis-placed towel on another hook, then put his own away.

No fuss, no drama, just got on with it.

rand()m quote

In our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

—David Graeber