Braeburn Forest Preserve and Marsh is a two minute walk from our house. I received report than our grand daughter who is twenty months old, created two works by the entryway to the park yesterday. When Finlea is permitted to walk supervised in the backyard she often heads for the park, the entryway of which crosses the creek. I was anxious to see for myself what she had fashioned. Finlea is on the cusp of using language. She demonstrates what she means-to-say by facial expression, by pointing with her finger, and by manipulating objects that interest her. 

These two photos show a cairn of pebbles and an arrangement of small sticks placed according to her sensibility.  These are beginnings, responses to her sense of the world and of appreciation — which will continue for the duration of her life. 

The wheel of life turns.