"Whenever I encountered a grown-up who seemed to me at all enlightened, I would experiment on him with my drawing Number One, which I have always kept. I wanted to see if he really understood anything. But he would always answer 'That's a hat.' Then I wouldn't talk about boa constrictors or jungles or stars. I would put myself on his level and talk about bridge and golf and politics and neckties. And my grown-up was glad to know such a reasonable person."
From "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
This website was invented many years ago, when the author kept coming across interesting things in pockets whilst doing laundry. Like small, terrified reptiles. Blogging about raising children in the rainforest, moving them to the UK and watching them leave home one by one to have their own adventures has gradually been replaced by a return to grownup life for their mother, Nan Sheppard, who is an anthropologist, writer and public international law consultant.
Wednesday, 24 October 2007
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i love reading all your blogs ms nan! i would add more comments but we in the bush don't have constant email access on our phones so my online time is few and far between but i will never complain because it has been a long time coming that we could even be this connected!!! thanks for all the laughs and wisdom!!
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