Today I took the boys to the Peace Pagoda and tried to meditate while they ran around the edge of pond trying to catch frogs. I was thinking mainly about perceiving the limits of awareness. I read a commentary that described perceiving conciousness as independent moments of awareness that flits from one desire to another to another. Certainly having two little boys argue about who would get to try to catch the next frog invoked a desire in me. I encouraged them to sit down and watch the frogs for a bit: first, because they would then come back to the edges of the pond and second to gain some insight into how the frogs behave (and to see the frogs using the same strategy to catch insects -- they didn't get that part). They sat and watched the frogs for about two minutes and then that was too boring.