Yesterday, I saw, heard, and experienced many things related to children.

I took these two photos on my way in to work:

Then, in individual and group therapy, I worked with people who had

• lost children
• felt lost, as children, and
• last week had lost somebody they loved as children, to suicide.

Here’s some of that work in progress, drawn by a former child, on a board:

I left work, as I usually do on Wednesdays, around noon time. This is what I heard, on my walk back to my car:

That‘s Bernadette Peters singing “Children Will Listen,” from Stephen Sondheim‘s Into the Woods. Here are the words she’s singing:

Careful the things you say,

Children will listen.

Careful the things you do,

Children will see and learn.

Children may not obey

But children will listen.

Children will look to you

For which way to turn

To…