Monday, September 18, 2006

bath

I came home pretty late from a meeting & was talking with Andey & Lars in the kitchen. Knowing he was taking a bath, I heard Joa talking in the bathroom & figured Gannon was in there with him. I went in to find him, prune-fingered, with the curtains draped around the bathtub, happily playing alone with a little plastic boat. It was such a sweet little-kid kind of moment, somewhat rare at this crossroads where he's slowly leaving paradise and learning bit by bit about some of the more disappointing aspects of life as a human in our current world. Balance: I'm trying to help him understand that for every awful fact he learns about our current state of affairs, there are billions of people offering each other trillions of loving, kind, generous actions every day.