When people are new

Footprints in the Wind? # 1027

He was at the counter waiting for his order, making a game out of chasing his 4 year old granddaughter back and forth, making faces with her. And it sent me to a place of wonder....

When people are new, little, we play with them—tickling, hiding and seeking, inventing fun things to do. Strange we do not think to do so when they are new but adult-sized. We think the little ones bright and wanting to engage with us, and our attention attractive to them...

- Douglas D. Germann, Sr.

And with people our size? Is it that we are afraid to impose? to be thought strange? to disturb or appear disturbed? Or is that where the fun is?


from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith