Midnight Deep Thoughts

Zarqawi

After taking a gander at Mr. Zarqawi's photo on the cover of The Economist next to Diane's bed, Nick began to ask the deep questions his inquisitive mind bubbles up:

"What if I grow up to be a criminal or a bad guy?"
"If a police man drives by, how does he know whether the gun is real or a toy?"

There were more, I'll let Diane edit to add more ponderings along with perhaps her answers...

Well...after Nick shed tears realizing that he could actually become a criminal and didn't want to, we decided to discuss how he could avoid that possible outcome. We discussed options such as doing well in school, going to college and becoming something (positive) that he would like to be. After discussing the option of being a police officer, and dismissing it as having too much contact with Bad Guys, he decided that being a scientist would do. He might invent things, like cars that fly. Or, with his penchant for potions, he could become a chemist (like his Mom) and create fuel formulas for the flying cars. After that, and Mommy lying with him till he fell asleep, the subject and the anxiety was at rest for the evening.

The conversation, however did resurrect during the following evening at bath time. He asked about bin Laden, as Mom explained the previous night, that Zarqawi worked for bin Laden. Mom told him that bin Laden was hiding in a cave, so naturally Nick wanted to know how Zarqawi got his orders from bin Laden, if bin Laden was hiding in a cave and Zarqawi was elsewhere. "Cellphones and computers" was Mommy's off-the-cuff answer.

There was more criminology discussion. Mom then told him (and this idea was lifted from a story that Dad told her this morning) that he was smart and talented. People can make choices about how they can use their smarts and talent. They can use them to do good, or use them to do evil. Nick decided he wanted to use his gifts to do good.

Then Nick gave Mom an example: "The King Pin, (a morbidly obese villian in the Batman video series) uses his technology (Nick's word, not mine) to do evil."

He seemed satisfied with the discussion as he donned his glow-in-the-dark batman pajamas and talked about Nacho Libre.

Let's hope he (and his Mother) rest easy for a night or two, before tackling more "Deep Thoughts".

Nacho

Nacho is a man with out skills who became a monistary cook. He cares deeply for the orphans he feeds but the food is terrible. Nacho realizes he must hatch a plan to make money to buy better food for “the young orphans, who have nothing”. When Nacho is struck by the idea to earn money as a Lucha Libre wrestler, he finds that he has a natural, raw talent for wrestling. Disguised by a sky blue mask, Nacho conceals his true identity as he takes on Mexico’s most famous wrestlers and takes on a hilarious quest to make life a little sweeter at the orphanage.