I returned last night from two days with my little grandson. He is a treat! He is making great effort to communicate and can imitate sounds and talks right along with me. We went out to dinner and he was totally entertained by the strangers in the room, staring without blinking, mouth open, drooling with a stunned look on his face. He was handed around the table, happy as a clam. Our own conversation was focused a lot on him, but we also managed to discuss other topics. We avoided politics, because it gets everyone steaming these days, even though we all vote the same. Just the general atmosphere is so loaded that in ranting about hate speech, one can end up sounding just as hateful. It was a respite from the news and the bombardment most of us experience just going about our daily lives. The radio in the car, the headlines in the grocery store, the newspapers, all besiege us.
So a baby cooing was the perfect antidote to the state of the nation. The state of the babies is mighty fine.
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