Thomas Kinkade cottage by the sea painting

Thomas Kinkade cottage by the sea paintingThomas Kinkade Cobblestone Christmas painting
learned disquisition on dde—I learned mostly from children. Their children's words are more like our words, you can expect them to mean the same thing in different sentences. But the children keep learning; and when they begin learning to read and write, at ten or so, they begin to talk more like the adults; and by the time they're adolescents I couldn't understand much of what they said—unless they talked baby talk to me. Which they often did. Learning to read and write is a lifeng occupation. I suspect it involves not only learning the characters but inventing new ones, and new combinations of them—beautiful new patterns of meaning.
They're gardeners. Things there pretty much grow on their own—no weeding, no weeds, no spraying, no pests. Still, you know how it is, in a garden there's always something to be done. In the village where I stayed there was always somebody working away in s and among the trees. Nobody ever wore themselves