One of our odder hobbies is to wander around in old graveyards. We don’t necessarily have to be looking for somebody, we just enjoy looking.
And often, we find something worth appreciating.
This photo was taken before Amanda turned five. She is leaning against the very ornate tombstone, shaped to resemble a bed, of a little girl named Ruth, who died when she was the same age. We had noticed other markers for small children, and explained that kids died of things such as measles and chicken pox, whooping cough and diphtheria (which we explained was a very sore throat), all of which can be prevented today by vaccines.
Amanda considered all this for a moment or two and then asked us to take a picture of her. “I’m going to put this on my mirror at home, to remind me that when Mummy takes me to the doctor’s for shots, it’s so I won’t die, too.”
Smarter than a lot of grown-ups.
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