
The Holy Mud of Story
My three year old nephew, Oliver, is amazingly wise. The other day he turned to my sister and, out of nowhere, observed, "Sometimes we're strangers to other people." My sister has been doing the incredibly important parent job of teaching Oliver about safety and has been explaining to him the concept of strangers: someone we don't know, so we don't know if they are safe or if they might hurt us. Though they hadn't talked about it in days, his tiny mind had been ruminating unt