11/17/24
For E.C.
It was a most excellent “36th birthday” . . . /s
I shared CHEEZ-IT communion with E.C. and held her hand.
I watched her go down the tube slide “One more time!”—many times.
Thinking her Dad was trailing behind her (a physical improbability), she stuck her head back into the maw of the slide, cupped her hand to her mouth, and called out:
“You comin’ Daddy? You comin’?”
How does an “almost” 2-year-old girl learn to amplify sound with her cupped hand and call out around a blind curve and through a tunnel? From whence comes the courage?… Read the rest