In the Gutter

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" - Oscar Wilde.

My children knew their Great Grandmother, Gigi.

They sleep in the winter under blankets she crocheted.

Those blankets are her legacy, as are her great grandchildren.

They love those blankets and when they talk about them and her I wonder what my legacy will be.

I don't crochet.

But I think that like all parents I struggle to keep my kids out of the gutter when I should be introducing them to the stars.

But it's usually too cold and too late, so I substitute stars for clouds, introduce them to the air and hope they will discover the stars for themselves.

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Look - I know we have underestimated the time you will take to build one of our Swing sets.

It's going to take hours and hours.

But then you have built it.