Emma and I had an interesting conversation this morning. As she was getting out of the shower and I was wrapping a towel around her, she said something like “I’m wearing a hobo.”
I’m pretty sure what she meant was that her towel looked like a toga, but I responded that a “hobo” was a word some people use to describe a homeless person.
Thinking about a homeless person made her really sad, and she said “I don’t want people to be homeless. I want to help people who are homeless make homes, by giving them saws.”
I wasn’t sure how to convey the complexity of such an issue, so I said “I’m afraid it would take more than saws to fix homelessness.”
She responded, “We’ll give them nails too.”
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