John Collier paintings

John Collier paintings
Jose Royo paintings
Juarez Machado paintings
Children between eight and twelve do most of the looking after the younger ones. All the sub-adolescent children of the family group go about together, and in such groups the two-to-six-year-olds provide language models for the babies. Older children shout wordlessly in the excitement of a of tag or hide-and-seek, and sometimes scold an errant toddler with a "Stop!" or "No!"-just as the Elder of Isu murmured "Hot!" when a child approached an invisible fire; though of course the Elder may have been using that circumstance as a parable, in order to make a statement of profound spiritual meaning, as appears in the Ohio Reading.
Even songs lose their words as the singers grow older. A rhyme sung by little children has words: ",
Look at us tumbledown Stumbledown tumbledown All of us tumbledown All in a heap!