Setting: kitchen during supper preparation. 6 year old Spencer is strumming his ukelele (with 2 cool new picks he just traded items with his dad for) and singing what appears to be nonsense, loudly and off-key.
Me: that sounds pretty cool. What are you trying to sound like? Who do you want to sound like when you sing?
Spencer (wearing a slightly puzzled expression): I don't want to sound like anybody. I want to sound like myself. Nothing else.
Me: That is brilliant. I understand completely. Please carry on.
We had such a nice day. Perfectly normal and pleasantly free of excitement or conflict.
Truly the lines have fallen for me in pleasant places.
Amen and amen.
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