Peace Like A River


It was a wide river, mistakable for a lake or even an ocean unless you'd been wading and knew its current. Somehow I'd crossed it... Now I saw the stream regrouped below, flowing on through what might've been vineyards, pastures, orhards... It flowed between and alongside the rivers of people; from here it was no more than a silver wire winding toward the city. - Leif Enger, Peace Like A River

Wednesday, August 04, 2004

Oh yeah, sometimes I'll wear my ASL shirts around the house. Some of them have pictures of tanks on them. John saw one and asked what is was, and I said it's a tank, and he said "water!" Ha, clever boy, and not too far from the origin of the word. When the British were first developing the tank for use as a weapon in WWI, workers were told they were building water tanks, and the name stuck.

And Hanna is just as clever. She asked what it was once, and I said a tank, and she started saying "choo-choo!" And I realized oh, she's thinking of Thomas the Tank Engine!!

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