The little boys don safety goggles while Andy mans the chainsaw. They're designing a stump throne at the edge of the woods, a place to sit and think.
I wonder if they'll always have their work cut out for them.
Standing at the counter, the big boys are disassembling a small mechanical toy, to replace batteries and - hopefully - reconnect a gear. Andy shows them how to diagram the parts as they remove sections, a strategy to aide in the rebuilding, a way to honor the process with some fulcrum of stability.
After an epic game of laser tag in the lawn, huddled around the outdoor kitchen the boys take turns flipping pumpkin pancakes, all of them so present that yesterday's regrets fall off the radar.
I become a lucky bystander to most of the magic happening here.
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"Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits..."
A.A. Milne
(You're so much more than a bystander. You are an enabler of magic!)
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