(Originally posted July 17th, 2013)
For the lead-up to Cedar’s fantabulous eighth birthday I posted these conversations on the book of faces, because what is 8 but a mirror of 3? Here they are again:
no. one: The snake and the rock
me: Do you see that snake down there on the ground?
cedar: Yes. It is beautiful. We should not throw something at it.
me: That is true. We shouldn’t.
cedar: Because someone might find out.
me: Well. Maybe it just is not such a good idea. We could hurt it.
cedar: Yes. And somebody might get mad.
me: Really, Cedar, we just should not want to hurt the snake.
cedar: Yes. And someone might find out we did it because a rock would crush the snake.
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