Today our streetcar was unusually packed – standing room only 10 stops from the subway. Most of the car get soft at the first subway exit. As we were leaving, I heard a man say ‘stay flat – as flat as paper’. When I arrived at the exit I saw he was talking to his two girls, aged about 6 and 4. I smiled to myself and thought how lucky these girls are to have their world described to them in such a vivid way and how much more of the world they must be seeing as a result.
And the girls were as flat as paper, the older one hugging the younger one tightly to her.