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On the other side of the road, facing the pond, there is a field of the common cattail. Along the road, clusters of purple loosestrife is blooming in peak, behind them are taller cattails with brown, dense cylindrical spikes(flowers). They make me think of troops in marching phalanx. Cattail—male troops, purple loosestrife—female troops.
A group of geese sway their big bodies in the grass. Constantly they move their heads up and down, picking food from the grasses. Two are bolder, they ignore my approaching by wandering to the edge of the green lawn.
My next stop is my park. When I have my car parked in the South parking lot, my feet landing on the ground, I feel I am back to my territory.
Walking across the green turf, I get to the Garden at Northwest corner. Alliums rounded corollas are getting bigger, their purple color is getting more noticeable. But the most striking finding are those slim, trumpet-shaped blooming flowers clustering around each of the “purple ball”. Two days ago, I still thought them look like sewing needles, hard and sharp which I dared not to touch, the balls look like meteor hammers. Now the needles magically bloomed into flowers. Now I start realizing the so-called meteor hammer are corollas with tens of flower buds!
I touched them cautiously to avoid getting painful piercing. But my caution seems having no sense, since they are soft! Just as soft as the flowers supposed to be. This experience tell me, Sometimes your first Impression can be wrong, don’t do judgement before you really know.
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早上問兒子他覺得他玩遊戲的利弊。他說利是：一是他因此想學一門樂器了，二是他因此想學在平板上畫動漫了，三是他學了更多的中文，四是他有話題可以和同學朋友們談。弊自是不必說。我就說既然如此，就要平衡利弊，使利最大化，弊最小化。他說如果大家都不玩遊戲，大家都平等，他也就不會玩了。但因為大家都玩，他不玩就顯得不合群，沒辦法和別人談到一塊了。聽他這麽一說，想到國內禁遊，18歲的以下都如此，小孩也就沒那麽難受了。當我說到從廣播聽到對一位年輕作曲家的采訪，她為一款日本動漫遊戲的配樂很好聽。他說還有歐洲的，中國的作曲家也在做這項工作。有一款遊戲的配樂是中國作曲家原作，但音樂製作是在美國完成的。想這麽個我一直認為五音不全的孩子竟然開始和我談這個話題，真是令我大跌眼鏡。哪天他若是真能開口給我哼兩句，我又會做何感想？我說：看來種族間並沒有本質的差別，以前認為中國人缺乏創新意識，在音樂美術方麵與西方人天生就有差距，其實不是這麽回事。
小孩說了幾次想吃蓮藕，中國超市沒有，終於從代購那買到了。做了蓮藕排骨湯和糖醋藕片。做完，覺得少色，就加了蔥花。見到蔥，問兒子，你聽說過這話嗎"你是哪根蔥呀？“ 說完，我大笑，兒子小笑。
沒想到兒子說他知道，在中國時就聽到過，還說對了它的意思”你以為你是誰呀！“
他又問我蓮藕算是菜嗎？我說和土豆一樣，是root vegetable.。他說但覺得沒有土豆那麽多澱粉。我說因為它是水生的，而土豆是陸生的。其露出水麵的部份是荷花，又和他說了”荷花出於泥而不染“
又問他是怎麽想起來要吃蓮藕的，他說是看了一個他喜歡的美國主播主持的一個外國人學中文節目，節目是同聲傳譯《舌尖上的中國》，美國女主播用中文說，說不出的部份就用英文代替，有時還會夾帶日文。
