Soap Bubbles

There is an espresso stand on the outskirts of town that has a bubble machine as an attention getter. When they first start using it I thought I was seeing things as I would see these bubble swirl around the car in front of me but now that we have daylight savings and some sunshine it is refreshing to see that there really are soap bubbles in the road.

Nearly everyone has enjoyed playing with soap bubbles and as long as you have a bottle for each kid they sure make for great fun when babysitting. These fragile spheres of soap film are both beautiful and captivating; the slightest breeze will carry them on a journey.

Did you know that in their simplicity, soap bubbles are used to solve complex mathematical problems of space because they will always become round making the smallest surface area. When one bubble meets with another, the resulting union is always one of total sharing and compromise. Since bubbles always try to minimize surface area two bubbles will merge and share a common wall.

Too bad we can’t all be more like bubbles, wouldn’t it be nice if we would all minimize ourselves and share or compromise when interacting with each other. I think I am going to go home and get out the bottle of bubbles that I keep under the kitchen sink and just enjoy the afternoon.