When you watch a child grow, you begin to notice a rhythm in the way they latch on to things. One week, their heart belongs to a stuffed animal, the next week it might be a toy car, and before long something else entirely takes over their imagination. My daughter has been teaching me this… Continue reading The Magic of a Child’s Ever-Changing Favorites
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The Growing World of Stuffed Friends: Watching My Daughter Bond with Her Toys
There’s a kind of quiet magic in watching a child form attachments. Not just to people, but to the things around them—objects that somehow become more than just what they are. For my two-year-old daughter, this magic started with a small and soft gray stuffed dinosaur. We called it Baby Dino. To her, it wasn’t… Continue reading The Growing World of Stuffed Friends: Watching My Daughter Bond with Her Toys
When Rain Meets Another Rain
Rain is something we all know. It taps on our windows, soaks our shoes, brings the smell of wet earth. But have you ever thought about what rain feels? Not in a poetic, imaginary way—but in the way we might project a quiet kind of life onto something so constant, so present in the background… Continue reading When Rain Meets Another Rain
