In a period of about three minutes:
Clara, age 10, asked me to turn down the temperature upstairs. “I’m not getting that crisp, fall feeling that I enjoy this time of year.”
Charlie, age 7, said, “I’m so glad we’re human beings. If we were anything else, life would not be so good.”
Also, “Dad, it’s like we’re living in a time machine. The millisecond that just passed was for one millisecond in the future and the next millisecond in the past. It’s crazy. We’re living in that tiny bit between the future and the past.”
My children make the childhood version of myself feel so incredibly stupid.
