What they may not know about are the injuries that occur when leaping children land on a nightstand or dresser.
Leaping children never reached the ledge, but they could see the divers as they jumped, and the divers could feel and hear the concussions of their cannonballs and can openers above their heads.
A Chinese Life's black-and-white artwork is dominated by vibrant images of jostling crowds, leaping children and heaving markets, their urgent life interspersed with sculpted propaganda portraits, beautifully still landscapes and fantastical visions.
"Southern Madagascar is a land awash in superstition — of witches and reincarnation and haunted bridges where children leap out of the darkness to send cars careening into the abyss," begins "A Plague of Sapphires," on the travel Web site Road & Kingdoms.
The siblings embrace passionately and shout "we are inseparable!" Before the adults can pull them apart, the children leap out of the window and fall fourteen stories to their deaths.
By Daniel Fromson March 8, 2014 "Southern Madagascar is a land awash in superstition — of witches and reincarnation and haunted bridges where children leap out of the darkness to send cars careening into the abyss," begins "A Plague of Sapphires," on the travel Web site Road & Kingdoms.
At a time when the classical music business is plunged in gloom, it is deeply inspiriting to be reminded of what drew us all to music in the first place: to see youngsters rush to learn about a complex instrument foreign to them, to see a gifted teenager respond instantly to expert guidance, to see 3,000 children leap excitedly to their feet after hearing Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Sousa.
Watch in horror as the children leap from the car directly into the mud because you've forgotten to pack their rain boots.
Spaces to play are few, some children leap and swim in the flood pools, but there is very little dry land.
"If we survive, someday our children's children, who can leap tall buildings in a single bound, will gather to watch, with metal eyes, a bunch of fierce kids made from meat and bone race the four hundred-meter hurdles".
