Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I'm talking a lot to my baby grandson and he is verbalizing right back.  I may not know what he's saying, but I'm certain he's communicating.  I repeat the sounds he makes, and he sometimes repeats my sounds.  Today I was showing him an owl finger puppet and saying "hoo" and he said it back.  What is going on in that little mind is pretty amazing.  I get to be a witness to the birth of language in a human, and how extraordinary it is.  He will recognize words soon, if not already, words like "mommy" and "daddy" and "kitty".  He knows already that his job is to master language and therefore make his needs known.  You can see him go on overwhelm when he's processing so much he can't take another thing in.  But there is joy.  He feels a part of it all:  his family and world.  The baby bird is chirping, and it is a song of humanity.