There’s a proverb in Japanese, ‘Kodomo wa kaze-no-ko’. It literally means that children are like the wind. They play around in the wind even when it’s bitterly cold, and it’s said that because they’re like the wind, they shouldn’t stay indoors all the time, but should play outside.

Well, there was a blizzard this afternoon, and in the midst of that blizzard, I saw two boys walking home from school, both dressed just in shorts and short-sleeved polo shirts. Nor did they seem uncomfortable- they were laughing and joking as they walked.

I think that might have been taking the whole ‘kaze-no-ko’ thing to extremes!