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What’s Your Superpower? (Need a Little Inspiration? Ask a Child)

What's Your Superpower? (Need a Little Inspiration? Ask a Child), by Judy Marano. Photograph of young girl by the sea by Tim Mossholder
Photograph by Tim Mossholder

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

There are so many horrors in the world, we could all use a little pause to ponder our superpowers…and those we’d like to have

Walking along the ocean’s edge on a cool, sunny morning, I saw the sweetest thing. A little girl, about four years old, in a ruffly pink swimsuit with a matching pink bucket and shovel, was drawing on the sand. She drew her intricate design with her tongue sticking out of her mouth in concentration. She tilted her head as if shifting her view would reveal hidden secrets. To her, it was the Mona Lisa, but I couldn’t

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