Hovering So Close to Understanding

We heard from Paula Egan Wright in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Paula teaches music, and last week she was introducing a group of three-year-olds to a song about birds.

And she held up a little finger puppet with a long beak and asked if they knew what kind of bird that was.

And one little girl said, that’s a honey bird.

I love that.

Instead of hummingbird.

Oh, a honey bird.

That makes a lot of sense.

A honey bird.

And you know how those childhood misunderstandings just get lodged in your vocabulary.

We have a lot of honey birds outside our window because we have a couple of feeders.

So that’s what I’m calling them from now on.

Thank you, Paula.

And the sweet stuff that you feed them is a little like honey.

Yeah, exactly.

So it kind of makes sense.

It makes sense.

We love the sweet things that children say.

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