Today at my son’s house I got to know his nephew and my grandchildren’s cousin, Charlemagne. This Charlemagne, unlike King Charlemagne, the father of Europe, is only a two year old. But today this Charlemagne, with his innocence, curiosity and good disposition, ruled. He did not need armies to rule but won everyone over with his smile.

I also had a chance today to talk to the family across the road that runs a dairy farm. We talked about the Indian way of using cow dung to make vermicompost and tentatively with my son and daughter-in-law made some plans to try this method of making an effective natural fertilizer and insecticide. Hopefully there will be much more about this in the future on www.nonviolentcow.org .

Some time today was spent at my four year old granddaughter’s dance recital. Girls from three years up were directed in this production by four high school girls, who themselves had begun in the program as three year olds. You could see the progress in beauty and form from the three year olds to teens.

Our Charlemagne joined us today as we went to the diary farm to visit the two new small pigs they had acquired. He was fascinated by the baby pigs and by the young cows that will grow up to provide milk, their main product, and dung a secondary but valuable product.

However, in this day full of children, pageantry, farm animals Charlemagne stood out, not as King or Emperor but as a child of joy and fresh life. This is the new Charlemagne.

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