Written by John, daddy to baby Clara and surrogate parent-type-person to Joy:
Here's a pretty good approximation of our conversation as we left your house this afternoon:
Joy: "Did Adam and Eve (well, first we had to establish THAT, as it was..."Who were those first two people?") so... "Did Adam and Eve have a wedding or did they just kiss?"
John: "Welllll, uh-humph. (Buying time with a few Winston Churchill-like throaty noises!) I don't figure they could have had a wedding as they were the only two PEOPLE."
Joy: "I thought maybe they had it with the am-inals."
John: "Well, I hadn't thought of that. I suppose they did just have a wedding with the aminals!"
Then later I made the mistake of telling her -- somewhat jokingly -- that in New Jersey you had God, and then you had Springsteen. She wanted to know how about Jesus and that other guy (we finally established it was Adam, back for more of our philosophic abuse!). She thought they might be higher on the chain.
So I figured I would mess with her poor, young mind and bring up the whole "God is in everything, so once you use him haven't you really covered all the bases? Most definitely Jesus -- as part of the Holy Trinity, dontchathink?" Makes me confused, is what I said.
She said if I thought it made ME confused, I should see how confused it made her.
So I backed away, somewhat unscathed.
I tell you, this hanging with a six-year old is harder than my freshman philosophy class was at Trenton State. And Dr. Henry Beechold did not take any prisoners; he would have been impressed with Joy!