Maia makes a wish

We went to a Japanese restaurant tonight. It has a carp pond, and people throw coins in it.

On the way to the bathroom to wash hands--the pond is along that path--Maia wanted to throw in a coin.

She said, "I wish for a star and that God told me a song."

She sings a song to Kristina sometimes that makes both of them cry. She wouldn't sing it to me today or tell me what it was about. But when Kristina once asked who had taught her that song, she said, God.

Neither of us is very religious, and we don't read much into what she says about God and songs beyond the fact that she went to a religious preschool. It is arresting, though, that she can sing songs sad enough to make her cry.

John, Sunday, October 14, 2007