standing by the window this morning, looking out over a foggy city,
i take pleasure in the small children playing on the rooftop across the alley ...
it is the childcare facility for glide church, which is a very good place,
helping those in our society who are the most hopeless ... anyway, their
little squeals of joy make me happy ... and i remember:
when i was a child and my parents were looking for a new house, i heard
my mother tell my father, not this place or that place because it was
near a school and she did not want to be bothered with all that "noise" ...
she had to listen to her own children's noise all day and certainly did not
want to listen to others' ... sigh ... she was a very frustrated human