twenty-eight years and a million words
Ken's learning to snap his fingers. It's fun to watch. He's learned that the finger has to cross the thumb, now (rather than tucking behind it, awkwardly).
You really do relive childhood with a child.
It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row