I took a 60-minute flight in a hot air balloon two days ago. It was a dream ride from the start. I had one person videotaping from below, and I videotaped from the basket. People waved as I floated over their neighborhoods. I saw houses, trees, grass, bicycles, cars, roads, schools, parking lots, swimming pools, people old and young, animals, and a big round earth and sky. A group of kids 11 to 15 years of age called to us, “Can you hear us?” I said, “Yes,” and they broke into screams as though they had connected with a lost world.

The balloon ride will become a series of video lessons using ordinary vocabulary as seen from an un-ordinary perspective. The series will appear in our third batch of 100+ ten-minute video lessons for homes and schools.