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My grandson hurt himself today. Not horribly, but bad enough that he’s been crying for two+ hours.<\/p>\n

On a lovely spring day — temps in the lower 70s — he was on the deck w\/ his folks, crawling happily around. Apparently, the threshold strip is too hot for baby hands. \ud83d\ude41 Even though I felt it later, and it seemed only very warm to me, it raised blisters on newish palms.<\/p>\n

This is bad enough, but remember: at 11 months old, you use your hands for EVERYTHING. Crawling, eating, holding, exploring. And blisters HURT.<\/p>\n

So a day that began beautifully — with a hungry Trin chowing down on his brunch of eggwhite from my breakfast sandwich, Cheerios, and bananas — in the flash of an instant went to trauma.<\/p>\n

That is, I suspect, the nature of life & Buddhism, right? Change… even when life changes (at least temporarily) for the worse. But listening to my beloved grandson sobbing his heart out, as his mommy & daddy try to soothe him? Heart-rending. I try to console myself with the idea of\u00a0kintsugi<\/em>, mending broken places with gold (or kisses and parental love). The idea being that damaged places can be beautiful — they make us human, make us grow.<\/p>\n

But it still doesn’t seem very fair…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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