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"Yesss," I hissed more to myself than her and felt very relieved that Alessandro had his own fair share of difficult conditions to have answered then. I wasn't going to be the only one bearing the brunt of my daughter's ever increasing brain capacity and insight.
"You see nature and God, they're not very different from each other," I told her as an idea began to form in my mind.
"Really? They're not? But daddy said..."
"Let me explain sweetie," I shushed her. On a good day, she'd have continued what she was saying regardless, but it seemed she really wanted to know about this 'nature' of a thing. Only God knew why.
"You see, God created everything, that's right," I said. She nodded along with me and took a bite out of her sandwich. She had gone way past the line I had drawn for her. "But God doesn't want us to be confused and think that it's all magic.That's why he gave us nature. Nature is the only way to explain all of God's creation." Okay, I was sure I had lost her already.
She just nodded blandly. If I kept yapping, she'd lose interest on the topic fast.
"What did daddy tell you God created?" I asked her to keep her engaged. She gave me this "are you stupid?" look.
"Everything mama," she groaned in frustration.
"Okay. In everything there is, you'd always find nature. Nature is everything and everywhere," I told her.
"I don't get it," she said plainly. At this point, I wanted to give up, but I felt like she was close. So, I could still drive it home. I grabbed a book and held it to her.
"You see this book?"
"Yes."
"The book is here today because of nature. Nature is the reason for the creation of everything."
"Huh? How?" Her face morphed into greater confusion than before.
I desperately wished Casey or Mrs. Margret were here. They wouldn't have found it as daunting to answer the continuous throws of whys, hows, and whats.
"Well, because that's nature. Nature is everything and everything is nature," I said calmly. That was going to be an easy concept to grasp.
"Ohh," she nodded slowly.
"Yesss," I drawled along with her.
"So, you're nature?"
I nodded.
"I'm nature?"
I gave her an understanding smile "Yes dear. You are nature."
"And this is nature?" She held up the plate we had served the sandwich on along with the nearly finished meal.
"Uh huh. One hundred percent!" I beamed at her. My smile died when I saw her confused expression again. "Uhh, that means 'totally' I gave a thumbs up and reinstalled a smile to my face albeit a faltering one.
"Ohh."
I could almost see her head expanding in size as the information seeped in.
The next couple of minutes, she went into a frenzy of naming everything her tender brain could come up with, starting with the ones she could see and transcending to the ones she couldn't and for everyone she listed, I agreed with her that truly they were all nature.
"So," she gasped, "even daddy's nature?"
I was going to make a sarcastic joke about him being a natural disaster, but I let it slide. That would be an entirely different topic. One that would take us the rest of the day just to scratch the surface.
"Yes, sweetie. You're daddy's a big, tall nature goo." I made her laugh with that joke.
