The New Story of Aspen

Aspen's first human word is high, which she says every time with that exclamation point. Her other first word was a dog word, woof woof, in response to dog sparking. She doesn't yet know that in our culture we don't say hi like this to anything that's not a person. But her father and I think that her greetings are in fact radical. They are innate intuition ascribes personhood, vow, not it, to every being they encounter.