Summer Most Heat Moon
Sitting on the couch tonight, I had a conversation with Ruth. She helped her dad with the 
deck today, so I said, “You could be a carpenter.” She said, “I could.” Paused. “But I want to be a scientist. Or a science teacher.” “In elementary or college or?” “College.” she said with a definitive tone.
We talked about Benjamin Franklin and the Franklin stove, Davinci and his ornithopter, Edison and the phonograph and the light bulb. She studied inventions by famous inventors in a program called GEMS, Girls Excelling in Math and Science. This is an hour and a half after school, two nights a week. She loved it.
Ruth is fresh and eager, a learner already excited, seeking. 8 years old. What a privilege to share her life.
