We had children and adults in the solo section whose ages started from just six years old.

And in the inter-school chant section we were also awarded a first place.

I started skating when I was six years old.

The way children stretch time and the way adults forget that stretch could be one of the saddest differences in the world.

He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming -- their trust that they are safe simply because he's with them, as if an adult presence warded of all possible threat, emanated an unbreachable forcefield.