It’s a special world, that of children. They tend to Carpe diem every minute of the day — with a lot more energy that that of an old grandpa like me.
One of our favorite activities — beside playing with something called Shopkins — is coloring.
And now for something completely different:
Friday night before we left for the weekend, my wife and I watched the latest episode of the NBC crime thriller, The Blacklist.
If you’ve never seen the Blacklist, it stars James Spader as Raymond “Red” Reddington, a former U.S. Navy officer turned high-profile criminal who is also working with the FBI and an FBI profiler name Elizabeth Keens. It’s complicated. The character of Reddington is even more complicated. Red’s a master storyteller — often at the most critical, time-sensitive moments -- which only adds to the tension of the scene. Whether it is recalling a scene from a movie he loved, a vacation he once enjoyed, or time spent with a friend, his stories are very detailed and dramatic. The juxtaposition of a ruthless killer telling sweet, nostalgic stories makes you hang on to every word.
What’s all this have to do with coloring my my granddaughter?
So, in last week’s episode, Reddington has just invited himself to sit with a mother and child at a diner. The child has an obvious disfiguring physical birth defect (the cause has something to do with the plot and Red's mission there is to coerce medical information from the mother). Red has just bought the boy ice cream and now the child is contently coloring:
Mother: Do you have a child with special needs?
Red (smiling in wonderment at the boy): Picasso said it took four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. They live in a delightful space somewhere between dreams and reality.
They taste color, hear shapes, see sounds . . .
We should all have such special needs.
My hope today is that I can Carpe diem . . . like a child!
David Kuhn
Hey, do you maybe remember which Episode it was? I would like to use it for a school project
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