Parenting

do you know how much I love self-contained children?

I just want to hug them - and more particularly, their parents.

Child comes to library info desk: "Excuse me, could you please help me find the second book in the Ranger's Apprentice series."

From that sentence I know a world.

Independence, knowledge, manners, sense of place - all there. Certainly not by accident.

Parents dug, planted seeds, weeded,  - and above all, provided sun and room to grow.

And the world shares the harvest.

Ah, sheer dazzling ordinary beauty.