If you have a 7 year old, you know the questions. My daughter excels at them. One unfortunate turn of events at school highlighted not so much a question but a condition of living. Sadly, one of her schoolmates passed away after a delicate surgery and I felt so bad for her. You never know how someone that young takes the change. In my daughter’s case it went down like this:
Arry: Shaun, I have good news and bad news.
Shaun: Tell me the good news first Arry.
Arry: The good news is I have one of each new Dragon Booster Toy and am only missing 2 now.
Shaun: What’s the bad news?
Arry: So and so died in my class
And that was about it. Some of the wonders that I get questions about are things like gravity, the sun, what happens to time when there is no clock available to see. Another interesting exchange though formulated my thoughts about my valuable little gene pool:
Arry: Shaun play this playstation 2 game with me now.
Shaun: I’ll play under one condition.
Arry: what’s a dition?
Shaun: Okay… Lets play.
My 14-year old learned real quick. There are some things you simply don’t explain. The answers to those priceless and changing questions you never really get to say because the answers are bound up in the living times. It came to my daughter that after December it will be 2007. But she is curious:
Arry: Will 2004 ever come back.
Dad: Only when time runs backwards or we get a time machine
Arry: Okay, I’ll take one.
Dad: One?
Arry: I’ll take One time machine now
It makes me smile because how time and space are invested in the young and how they perceive things that we adults end up worrying so much about. We all worry about time, space, reality. But what if they are just ingenious or even stupid inventions to allow us to accept the unknowns? My daughter has it all. She bends time and space and reality.
Simply put… Seven year olds can do that 
