Hello,

I had an interesting thought during my travels. I was having something to eat and talking about the kids. I feel that I know many of them very well now. In our discussion, the person asked me if they could all speak English. And, I told him that the older children spoke well and the younger children were just learning. He asked “so, how do you know these younger kids?”

The next day I actually paid closer attention to the amount of English some of the younger children spoke. It was very very little. And yet, the amazing part is that I could tell you many things about these children, including lots about their personality traits. Yet, I couldn’t talk to them.

I read in a book once about the “theory of thin slices”. The theory suggested that if you pay attention and trust your intuition, you can know a person in only a few minutes. It suggested that many people take years to try to know someone and make decisions about things like marriage. Well, the theory would suggest that intuition is more important than time.

So, I can’t talk with many of the children. Yet, I could talk about each of them for hours. You often only need to take a thin slice to know the rest of the cake.

Love Gerry