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She was busy. She had no time for chatter. For sand to slide idly through the hourglass.
The day was short.
Each moment was precious. Each second, opportunity.
Her focus never wandered.
Each section had to have its exact place.
Every addition, calculated.
There were walls and gates and many fences.
There’d be knights and royals to showcase.
Moats and pits of fire.
She was, after all, building an empire.
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That is absolutely lovely! She will succeed with such concentration 😉
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🙂 I love seeing the utter focus of children in play. There is an intensity to their absorbed-in-play that is just delicious to observe. And … if they let you, participate in. 🙂
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Oh yes, me too. I love to be on the sidelines 🙂
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She may rope you in to lug buckets of seawater to get the sand in shipshape … 😉
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If she’s smart 😉
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I bet she is! 🙂
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I don’t doubt it 😉
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😀
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Oh, yes, Na’ama. Empire building is a very precise science not to be played lightly. Very well done.
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Thank you, Bill. I’ve never tried to go quite THAT big, but I can only imagine … I’m having trouble building on a smaller scale … 😉
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🙂 Start small, finish big.
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Ha! Better than start big, finish half-done small … 😉
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Lovely, Na’ama! I love how you finished with the word in the last line, so matter-of-factly 🙂
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Thank you, Sunra! I am so glad you enjoyed it. I’m thinking of all the kids I’ve known who’d been busy bustling around and when an adult asked them “what are you making” they’d give the adult a look of “what is wrong with you that you don’t automatically know what I am working on, when it ought to be positively clear given that I myself know it already…” 😉 And so, it felt a bit like that to me at the end of that piece. 🙂
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Totally get it! It came across exactly 😊
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🙂 Yay!
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I can picture the scene with her concentrating, modelling and adjusting! Delightful.
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Yay Keith! I’m so glad it was palpable! 🙂 (And no sand to clean up after!)
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You’ve captured perfectly that sense of serious purposefulness a child has when they are constructing something.
Beautiful.
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Thank you! It’s one of the most delightful things to see, isn’t it? 🙂
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🤗
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