Reproduction

            One day, coming home from a concert at the high school we saw some bald eagles. They are really common in our area these days but I never tire of seeing them. Drew was asking if eagles have baby eagles. I told him they lay eggs like all birds. He asked if all animals lay eggs and I told him no, that some are born like he was, all wiggly and small and not in an egg. I also explained that everything has babies or they just can’t continue to exist, that I had been a child and now I have children and that they will someday have children, everything must have children if they are to continue in our world and that if eagles stopped laying eggs that they would no longer be around someday. Adam decided to enter this conversation. “Not everything has babies” he says. I disagree with him. He tells me that power lines don’t have babies. I tell him that he is correct in his assessment. I guess I neglected to mention that these things that have babies to continue in our world have to be living things. And here I thought I’d done so well in my explanation.