Some time ago, when my granddaughter was 5 years old, I was busy copying some home videos onto DVDs.  We had a small television sitting on our kitchen counter hooked up to the various machines to make transfers work.  It was a rather tedious process of putting in the video tape and allow it to play through as the transfer occurred.  I had the television there to check on progress and make the appropriate trades of tapes and DVDs in a timely way.  One sequence on the video caught my attention and I stopped by the counter to watch the wedding reception of a niece.  My granddaughter came into the room and stood by me to watch the interactions going on at the wedding reception.  There was the usual, smiles and handwaves to the camera, people complaining about being caught on video, and family members telling stories.  After about 10 minutes of watching, my granddaughter said, “Grandpa are those all the human beings you know?”  I was so taken by surprise I stuttered a little as I answered.  It made me think about just how many human beings do I know.

Tomq