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I'm wondering if you can describe a moment when you were watching your kids and felt that big capital A awe. Before we went to South

Lake, we hadn't had a lot of awe moments together as a family. But I'll never forget getting on

the glass bottom kayaks with our eldest son Vinny. This was as part of a research project,

and I was kind of worried about how this was going to go. and the way these canoes are kind of configured is they're made out of like a very transparent plastic and because Tahoe is so clear you can see all the way through to the bottom of the lake and it's a very deep lake and it's very blue water. And the moment he looked down, he was just like, oh, like totally face spontaneously broke

out into an off face, eyebrows up, eyes wide open, mouth the jar breaking out into a smile.

And he was just plastered onto the boat.

His face is just like mashed up against the bottom of the boat. And he was just like totally exclaiming, totally exclaiming, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop, go back, go back, go back, go back. What was that, what was that? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And he almost like pre-verbal. Just getting to see him have this experience to something that I hold so sacred, right? Tahoe that it struck him in the

same way and forged a connection, a deep emotional connection between him and the thing that just

like stunned him into bewilderment, then made me connect to him even more. Did you go out and

immediately buy a glass bottom guy?

Vinnie, we're doing this every day, buddy.

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