The beauty of LEGO

Last weekend I spent an afternoon with my 3-year-old niece Madison. When I arrived she was standing knee deep in a pile of LEGOs, one of my favorite classic designs. I asked her to show me what she made, and I got a fantastic surprise. She built a flower garden!

During my childhood I spent hours building everything from houses to skyscrapers, barns and restaurants. When I think LEGO, I think architecture—my imagination pretty much stops there. Not Madison’s. When she thinks LEGO, she thinks flowers, and much, much more. During her short time on Earth Madison’s gotten all kinds of creative with LEGO, building pirate ships, Batmobiles and even Battle Droids. That’s the beauty of LEGO—whatever you think, can be.

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Uh, my eyes are up here

The airplane interior is fed up, it’s sick of being subjected to the focused gawking and disrespectful gazes of those who are supposed to know it better than anybody else. Every time it gets a new outfit of photonic fashion, people come in and stare; they don’t even care, they just stare.

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