Farm & Food File: As adults we realize the everyday often isn’t every day

When you’re 8 or 9 years old, you don’t see the world as you will as a 50- or 60-year-old. Much of what seems perfectly ordinary to a child often becomes quite extraordinary with the passing of time.

For example, as a young boy I had six grandparents: my father’s mother and father, my mother’s father and mother, and my father’s maternal grandmother and grandfather. That seemed ordinary to me then but is now extraordinary.