The brain (Identity)

by BBella , Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 21:56 (4259 days ago) @ dhw

"Dark is in-between all the light." This was a musing of hers during a day sitting with me on our deck watching the horses eat grass in the field. I thought she was speaking of shadows so I asked her to point to the dark that she was talking about, and she looked up to the sky and then raised her hands up and all around and said it's everywhere in-between everything and wondered why I couldn't see it. Dark Matter? Who knows. It's what her brain was telling her! 
> I'm still pondering as well....[/i]
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> Absolutely brilliant! If your little one had still been little, we could have got her and my grandson together, and they would have compiled a book of wise sayings (with you and me acting as their secretaries). 
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> Your analysis of these intuitive insights may be right. The image I like to use is that of the city covering the earth beneath. The child is much closer to Nature than the adult, but gradually the man-made world takes over.-I can appreciate the image of "the city covering the earth beneath". That's very fitting for how we cover up the intelligence of these little geniuses! I home-schooled all but my first child, and they all retained much of their independent thinking, which I am thankful for. They do not tend to fall so quickly for what is told them as most people do that are taken at an early age and taught how not to think for themselves. My last daughter chose to go school in her last year and is very scientific in all her thinking, and questions everything. She just won her category in her science project and will go to state with it. She chose to do a study on how weather affects mood sending out a questionnaire to the school at large, teachers and students. Then did an analysis. She still asks me the hard questions and then gives me far out theories that surpasses my own. She is a well rounded thinker in my book. Altho she is studying and apprenticing to be a large animal (farm) veterinarian I know she could easily be swept away by
her passion for science in any direction at this point. -Fortunately for me, I do still have my 3-1/2 year old brilliant grandson living with us since his birth. So far, he seems to be more of a sponge and less of a "muser" but there's still plenty of time. I call him our Mimicking Navigator. He's mimicked his grandpa from day one as if that is the mission he was sent here to do. And he can tell us how to get from here to there (places he has been of course; turn this way, now go that way). He seems to have a memory made for navigating, and did from an early age. He does have a knack for putting things matter-of-factually and will always tell the truth the way he sees it (not the way you see it or want to hear it). His notorious, honest quotes are already making rounds in the family. He is a very well balanced little man as I've ever seen, for his age. I'm sure he will surprise me soon with his insights. I'm just chomping at the bit to learn something new though his eyes. And when I do, I will probably be quoting them here. lol