My daughter, 7 and my son, 10, both look at this photo and see a pile of leaves just waiting to be kicked through and rustled. It’s hard to work out which is the more satisfying – the feeling of your feet buried in the dry leaves or the noise they make as you kick your way through them.
But there comes a moment in your life when you see not the leaves, but the dog turd hidden beneath them.
Peter Kay once said that knowlege is knowing that a tomato is a fruit – and wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
He’s right. But while it’s important to know that the dog turd is there it’s important, too, to be able to see not just that.
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