Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Last night at our weekly pizza night at Stellar Emma made a new friend. On our way to the car she proclaimed,

"mama, the boy with the crazy hair is coming to our house. I invited him. He has two moms. I like him"

Henry, age 4, is the biracial son of a lesbian couple. Why is that important? I think it is important because it demonstrates how much different the world is through the eyes of a child. Children are blind to struggles of the world and unaware of society based judgments. Emma and Henry played all night long in the airplane taking trips to who knows where. To them, they were just two kids having fun.

Emma has no idea that she lives in a world where people are judged because the color of their skin. Emma is unaware that in this country same sex couples are fighting for the right to be married and to have equal rights. Emma doesn't know about discrimination. All Emma knows is that she really liked Henry. She was not concerned that his skin was a different color. She didn't care that his family was different than ours. All she cared about was that he was a new friend and that they had a good time.

That is beautiful.

Can you imagine how much better the world would be if we could step back and look at the world through the eyes of a child?