LJ Idol Season 8, Home Game Entry: Holes

[alycewilson]

This is my home game entry for Week 37 of LJ Idol.

Comments

[kathrynrose]

"It's OK, Mommy. I get more water."

I love this!

[alycewilson]

Thanks! I was so tickled when he said that.

[muchtooarrogant]

<< Gently, I explain to him that sand is made of particles. Raising a handful up, I let it spill through my fingers. "The water will flow between the particles and sink into the sand," I tell him. >>

Your Cut Text title caught my attention, and even here, when it was plain you weren't being literal, I was thinking, "Maybe they're God-like beings?" LOL Trying so hard to force you in a direction you weren't going. *grin*

<< Is it my job, I wonder, to prepare him for disappointment? Or just to be there for him when things inevitably sink through the particles of his life? Loss, heartbreak, failure? >>

That was beautiful. So much captured in so few words.

Dan

[alycewilson]

Thank you. I thought of doing fiction with a childlike god but decided to stick closer to reality.

[n3m3sis42]

Awwww.

[alycewilson]

:)

[alycewilson]

Thank you. Children's imagination is awesome. Not mentioned here, my nephew was building a utopia!

[halfshellvenus]

Is it my job, I wonder, to prepare him for disappointment? Or just to be there for him when things inevitably sink through the particles of his life?

There's such soulfulness to this question. It's one that I think most parents never stop asking themselves.