Trial and Error

My sister is in grad school for sociology. For some research projects she has to get approval of her methods due to considerations of propriety when doing experiments with human subjects.

It occurs to me that any relationship or interaction is an experiment with a human subject. Parenting especially. We could all stand to be more mindful of that as we go about our lives.

In The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis, the creation story of Narnia, Aslan says to the human boy Digory, “Grief is great. Only you and I in this land know that yet. Let us be good to one another.”

Grief is indeed great. Let us be good to one another.