One day I was eating lunch with my children. My pre-teen daughter was enjoying a green leafy salad when my 5-year-old son asked me “Daddy, where does lettuce come from?”
Not wanting to miss an opportunity to stimulate his thinking I replied, “Well son, it comes from Heaven.”
He gave me that tilted head look and asked, “What! How can that be?
I continued, “It’s like this, have you ever seen a lettuce seed?”
He shook his head “no”,
“Well, it’s really really small, you can barely see it. There is no lettuce in it, just a recipe for lettuce, you need to add Heaven”
“How do you do that ?” he said.
“Well,” I went on, “you need to plant the seed in the Earth, that’s a part of Heaven” I reminded him. “Then, the sun light shines down on it from above, you know, another part of Heaven, and then ‘poof’ you’ve got lettuce”
“Hmmmm… I get it,” he said. Then he gave me the strangest look ever, I could just feel him thinking, and out popped his next question. “Daddy, where do I come from?”
“Well sweetie, you come from Heaven too!”
“What? Aw come on Daddy, how can that be”
“It’s like this, have you ever seen a human seed?”
He shook his head “no” ”
Well, it’s really really small, you need a microscope to see it. There is nobody in it, just a recipe for a person, you just need to add Heaven”
“How do you do that?”
I said, “Eat your salad!”
Taiji on Maui 
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