The little round holes in the leaves of the redroot amaranths I passed next to the playground caught my eye. Unfortunately stopping to look at them and for the tiny beetle that had made them caught me in a minor parental contradiction, and to a child no parental contradiction is minor. Minutes before I had said that my daughter, age four, needed to stop…
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