Learning

I sat and read with my 6-year old stepson last night.  It's an amazing thing to watch someone learn to read.  I listen to him sounding out the consonants and verbs.  Deciding when to step in and when to let him decipher on his own.  He is learning so fast.  When I first got to know him, he didn't know a word and now, just a couple of short years later, he's whizzing through two-syllable words in many cases.  Watching these milestones with a child, even if he isn't my own, is like watching flowers grow and the sun set and the moon rise and babies being born...the world keeps on moving forward and when I stop and take notice I see what a magnificent world we have.