I made a new friend last Friday evening. I arrived home from Washington DC about 6:30 pm and my wife had a small group from church over at 7. I was supposed to get a fire going in the patio fire ring for the obligatory roast hot dogs and marshmallows (it was chilly in Ohio). I teach the class, but aside from an intellectually challenged young man who hangs out with us, I'm the youngest. Except for 3-year-old Chase, who came with his grandparents. So the youngsters, Chase and me, hung out together. Ever watch a kid. They get utmost concentration on something trying to puzzle it out. We went around the kitchen and he told me his mommy also had a sink, oven, refrigerator and so on. He was partly organizing in his mind that sink isn't just one instance, but a general thing that he could expect to see in any kitchen.
I was thinking about this experience as I stopped to stare at a huge spider web that stretched from the lower branches of an ornamental plum tree to the ground.
The large spider was patiently waiting in the center for dinner to appear. Have you lost the ability to just get lost in thought pondering the wonders around you? If so, try to get it back. I just saw this quote of Albert Einstein, "Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." True. Go back to being a kid and look at things in wonder and then puzzle out "why."
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