"Feeling Sick"

For the first time in many years I have a minor illness. I have never been susceptible to colds or the flu but then again I didn't always have grandchildren. I was already a little under the weather but I'm prtty sure it didn't help when at 3 a.m. Colby sneezed right in my face from a distance of about 8 inches! I suppose it's my own fault for watching my grandson sleep but that's ok, I'll take the tradeoff.

When I look into the eyes of my grandchildren or just watch their faces while they sleep I see a peace and innocence that I can't find when I look in the mirror. And despite the fact that I can't seem to acquire the same state I am at least grateful that I have them as role models. Eventually I will get it!

I truly believe that they were sent to me primarily to teach me and I'm going to keep learning. I'm grateful to their parents for allowing me so much of their time.

Isn't it cool that children have absolutley no sense of racsim or sexism, no religious or national arrogance? How lightly we seem to take the fact that we have learned to hate each other for things like skin color, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, or one of my favorites, nationality? The whole concept of these prejudices is absurd! If we would look closer at the chidren perhaps it would hit home that it took a lot of work to get so fucked up. The state we exist in as adults is not our natural state as human beings. Childhood is the natural state and we should strive to go back there.

Anyone want to go out and play?

"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."---Stacia Tauscher

"Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music."---William Stafford

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."---Rabindranath Tagore

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