Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

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Monday, August 14, 2023

The Important Child Thing

 On Saturday, I dropped my pontoon boat into the water and sliced around the lake with a few people from the place next to me. Randy and Melissa brought along their four-year-old daughter, Emelia. As is my custom, I asked little "Em" if she would like to "drive" the boat. She loved the idea and took the wheel alongside her father in the captain's chair.

It's funny. All children have the same question as soon as they get underway behind the wheel. They don't ask what direction they should go or how fast they should proceed, as an adult might. Instead, Em asked the important child thing all children ask: "How do I honk the horn?"

—Mitchell Hegman

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