Mama Looking Up

Impossible May 20, 2008

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Here is one of my favorite quotes:

‘There is no use trying,’ said Alice; ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’ ‘I dare say you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’  –Lewis Carroll

A pair of blue jeans lies on my living room floor…..attached to a rumpled t-shirt….filled out with the lean soft body of my 2-year old. His arms are spread to his sides and he is holding very still. He is on his tummy, face pressed to the grates of a floor vent. I watch the back of his homemade haircut, waiting.

And then….

“There IS a fish swimming down there!” he yells exuberantly. He hops to his feet, satisfied, and runs off to his next impossible thing.

 

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