Tonight was the weekly Gramma-and-Melanie night. (Melanie Joy Klaus is my four-month-old granddaughter.) I take care of Melanie for a couple of hours every Wednesday night while her mama works at an office cleaning job.
This little baby has always liked to look in the mirror. But I observed she is doing it differently now than heretofore: She wants to play with that other baby, to interact with the person in the mirror. The same response was exhibited when we sat down at the computer and flipped through pictures of Melanie. She laughed and “talked” to the other Melanie that filled the monitor screen.
Isn’t that the way it is for us big people, too? As we mature, we see ourselves with greater depth. And, we want to do something about what we see.
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