Idle Ramblings

A brief thought...

Yesterday, Rebecca and I took my nephew and niece to the zoo for my nephew's 12th birthday. We stopped to eat lunch in the zoo restaurant, one side of which is a glass wall that looks out onto the black bear habitat. The bears were as curious as the kids crowded against the glass wall. And as the children laughed and squealed with delight, pressing their hands and faces against the glass with the bears only inches away doing the same. At that point it occurred to me that the difference between a fun afternoon and terror and carnage is nothing more than an inch thick pane of glass.

posted by Joseph @ 7/31/2005 01:39:00 PM