how can you love a little cat so much in such a short short time?

Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old.

how can you love a little cat so much in such a short short time?

Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?

What exactly did people do when they had all the time in the world and could do whatever they liked?

Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

In many of my books, I explore the ways in which grandparents or other older persons are shaped by the young, and the young are shaped by the old, in an evolving dance.