As much as we tried to get the children to pay attention to art, after the beautiful exhibition of wax birds they were all finished with passive looking.  The visit would have been over had they not discovered the minecraft site.  

It was no use pulling them away and saying they could do this at home.  They wanted electronics.  No Picasso could distract them.

The museum was gloomy anyway, and that didn’t help our mood either.

It doesn’t comfort me to know that there are more fascists in France than Israel.  It doesn’t comfort that the Democrats did better than we fears in the US election.  It doesn’t help me that Herzog warned the religious parties of the negative press Ben Dvir generates in the world.  I think back at the gathering of birds we saw yesterday and I wonder how many of them, and how many of us, are heading for extinction.