{"id":1197,"date":"2007-04-26T14:25:40","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T19:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2007\/choices\/"},"modified":"2007-04-26T14:26:07","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T19:26:07","slug":"choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2007\/choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a tradition from the Polish side of my family that, on their first birthday, children are presented with four objects to see what they’ll reach for: a Bible, a piece of food, some money, and a pen. What do you suppose Lucy chose? <\/p>\n

Here’s video of the event, so you can see for yourself. It’s a 5.1 MB download and runs 1'45".<\/p>\n

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p{color:gray}. Note: If you can’t see the video, you may simply need to update your free “QuickTime”:http:\/\/www.apple.com\/quicktime\/ plugin.<\/p>\n

For the historical record, here’s an extract from a letter my Mom wrote to my “Grandma Borzykowski”:\/news\/2006\/happy-birthday-grandma-martha\/ after my own first birthday, back in 1967:<\/p>\n

bq. I gave him an apple instead of bread because I knew he’d eat the bread first thing. As it happened he touched the apple first anyway and then with his right hand on the Bible he touched the money and the pen.<\/p>\n

I’d say the Bible-and-pen thing has played out nicely, but what’s with the money? (And is this penchant for the apple an early sign that I’d be a Mac user?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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