ABSTRACT
Everyone knows that grandparents and grandchildren often have a very special bond that goes beyond words. Still, from time to time, the way grandchildren act can get on the nerves of grandparents (and, of course, the way grandparents act can get on children’s nerves too). When he was a child, my father, Tsayoga (Bluejay) as his grandpa called him, was a good little boy, sensitive, quiet, inquisitive, but also very stubborn. He was a good boy, but he had to do things his own way, and he couldn’t always understand why things weren’t the way he thought they should be. “But why?” he might ask his grandfather—over and over and over. Sometimes, Grandpa would get a little frustrated with the boy, who might be busy listening but not hearing.
