Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Oh My Bubbles!

So the other day I had a little container of bubbles which I was blowing throughout the day.  I blew them at the elementary school track meet, in the halls, in some of my classes, and later that day at a high school track meet.  I noticed something really cool.

No matter who it was or what they were doing, anyone who saw the bubbles would immediately  exclaim, "Ooh! Bubbles!" and often times set to chasing them around and popping them.  It was so cool to watch someone's day instantly go from normal to whimsical.  It reminded me of the stuff on Wooster Collective that challenges our views and attitudes about the world around us.

It's just cool to make peoples' days more out-of-the-ordinary, more surreal, more spontaneous, more [fill in appropriate adjective here].

7 comments:

Jessica Grosland said...

Bubbles are fun, huh? They're almost magical, and no matter how old you get it's still exciting to see one. I love how sometimes even grown-ups act like little kids around them. We need more things like that in our lives. Things that recall us to a state of innocent wonder.

Isn't it nice that God made bubbles? I mean, it's not like they serve any purpose. He really must have made them solely for our pleasure and entertainment.

What a nice guy!

A said...

Seemingly for our entertainment and pleasure! Little did you know, that in the year 2197, bubbles save the world from nuclear disaster!!!! God made them solely for this purpose, and none other, and our frivolous use displeases him.
...or something.

Haley said...

Thanks for that post, Logan, and I really appreciate those comments as well.

Bubbles are the only things that I know of which can be many different colors and transparent all at the same time. That's pretty awesome to me!

I agree, Megan! God is a pretty nice guy.
:)

Logan Thomas said...

Well, there are rainbows too, and prisms, which are really the same as bubbles....

Who's Megan?

Jessica Grosland said...

Oh, Logan, didn't I tell you? I'm changing my name to Megan.

And moving to Wisconsin.

And growing a beard.

...

Logan Thomas said...

freaking hot!

Krystal said...

You should try playing with a parachute sometime. You know those giant circular colorful things that you'd get out in PE in elementary school? I was with a bunch of college kids bouncing a bunch of balls around in those and you should have seen the silly grins on everybody's faces.

Simple pleasures make life wonderful :D