let’s call this a soft launch, in between the importing of archives and the lying down on the couch in the middle of the day watching james bond (i have been coughing and dizzy for three weeks now, and need to lie down lots. perhaps it’s consumption?).

a movie we’ve seen quite a few times of late is “the sound of music”. sure, i’d been playing the LP of the soundtrack for the last three years, so the kid was familiar with the quirky charms of “the lonely goatherd”, and was not immune to the educational pointers in “do-re-mi”. but as soon as the shiny, digitally remastered von trapps marched (and then danced) across the screen…

well! the songs have taken on new life. the so longs and farewells, the waltzing, and maeve’s favourite, “sixteen going on seventeen”.

why, just this morning, getting ready for school, we sang: your life, little girl, is an empty page that men will want to write on…

the kid had a quick think in the beat, and then asked: “are they talking about facebook?”