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Hey, is this thing working? Can anybody hear me?
This little old blog of mine is like a favorite hangout of my youth, one I haven’t visited in ages. I’ve been away so long, and now, upon my return, I find it dreadfully neglected. It needs some dusting, perhaps some weeding, definitely needs a broom taken to it to clear out the cobwebs.
I’ll try and get on that.
Where have I been? You may wonder. Or maybe you don’t. As the lyrics to that Tom Petty song go, maybe you don’t come around here no more, either. I wouldn’t blame you. I realize it’s not much fun to hang around an old place like this, one where the proprietor can’t even be bothered with its upkeep.
I’ve just been doing other things. Nothing exciting, nothing worth writing about or believe me, you’d have heard about them. Mostly, work. And reading books (hey, I bought myself a Kindle!), and running. Lots and lots of running. But not with the Kindle in my hand. It seems a little delicate. I JUST bought it, I don’t want to drop it.
And then, well, Snags is growing up. And growing up means there just isn’t as much to share.
There is this, though….
The other morning at breakfast Snags was telling me about the world and how in some parts of the world, because the world is a “sss-fear” (that’s sphere but he can’t pronounce it correctly) people are walking upside down.
“Mom,” Snags asked. “Do you know why that is? Do you know WHY they can walk upside down and not fall off the planet?”
I was happy. I felt like it was the Final Jeopardy question and guess what? I knew the answer! (Which is totally opposite of how I feel when he quizzes me about Star Wars, by the way).
“Um… gravity?” I replied. (You see, I added the “um” before I said gravity so I wouldn’t sound too smug. I’m a nice mom like that).
“No!” Snags replied.
“Not gravity?” I asked, stunned.
“Nope. It has to do with the way the earth spins around and the angle it tilts and all that.”
Folks, I was a geography major in college. I learned a little about the earth and how it spins and its tilt and “all that”. The kid has mixed up gravity with the seasons.
But I let it go, because here, where we live, we’re in the middle of the snowiest winter on record, and schools have been closed for over a week and the roadways are one lane wide, and snow piles hide stop signs and swallow turn lanes. It’s pretty grave, for sure. I can see how Snags would confuse gravity and the seasons.
Now if I can only get him to say “sphere” instead of “sss-fear”. I’ll try and get on that too.
And oh, yeah… I’ll be back.
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