But most people would think such a man rich. The fact is that no one is really poor if he is able and willing to earn an honest living, and has the chance to do it. He is independent, and where there is independence there is no actual poverty. It really was an emergency. There was work to be done.
Kids are great.
I love them. At this critical point, however, the work at hand was vital to the business, and whiling away the two hours or so that it would take to finish the load by baby sitting was not an option. Yet here I was, and there they were, five and three, and ready to find out everything there was to know about daddy's work. Critical things, too, to the mind of a child, like what was under this stack of alphabetized papers, where that long, dark corridor led, and what was in these drawers. There are a thousand things for a child to do in my office, but none of them are safe or convenient.