Adi my 2 year old nephew likes to play whenever we meet. He currently is fascinated by a ball. He quickly makes rules asking me to stand still in a place, stretch my legs so that i look shorter and he throws me the ball. In turn i have to throw him back. He is persistent that i do not budge! Well he just invented a half game! He made simple rules so that he can maximize his play. He has no sense of counting, so there are no scores. But fairly large part of the game is already designed by him. He has made great rules so that he can maximize what he likes to play, that is throwing the ball, catching it back, running around, trying to win by getting the ball right. In a couple of days he also improved his skill of throwing and catching. He now knows, if not distracted improving his skill can be a obsession. Once he will learn to count, i am sure he will use the knowledge of the count again to maximize his play. He might be lost in the concept of win may be all through out his life but cer...
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All of classical music is based on beautiful patterns...strips, cross-weaves, locks etc...and the endless permutations and combinations of these patterns is the endless part of classical music making us aware of our own limits and what all lies beyond them! "Anahad Naad Aparampaar...Saraswati Swayam Dhoondhe Aadhaar..." is a composition I had learnt in the beautiful Raag Bhimpalasi describing how Goddess Saraswati herself had to take the support of the two gourds and the adjoining piece of wood to come afloat in the limitless ocean of music.