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Hide and Seek
My youngest grandchild is getting into playing peek-a-boo. She finds it great fun when I hide my face behind my hands and then pop them open and say “boo”. We have many delightful moments together as we find variations in hide and seek type games. I remember playing similar things with my own children as young ones. Gradually they learned to cover their own faces to play the game themselves. The interesting thing with my wee ones was that, when their faces were covered by their hands, they believed that I couldn’t see them at all. As long as they couldn’t see me, surely, I couldn’t see them. It was…
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Hiding Out
Did you ever play hide and seek? I remember long summer nights where all the young people on our block would play that game for hours together until it was so dark we could barely see. We never played in one specific yard but for quite a distance down our street. It was always fun to see if I could find the perfect hiding spot where I could sit with great delight and watch the others valiantly try to find me. Nowadays we often find ourselves hiding out for a different reason. The news reports are full of negative Covid stories: a celebrity gets Covid after his own birthday party…