Talking to Ina

（這是一段和Ina的對話，我永遠都不要忘記。）

This is about one of my conversations with Ina (mom), one which I intend to remember forever.

Last weekend, I attended a two-day seminar called "Revisit Your Childhood"（走訪童年）. The lecture was great, so was the group of participants. In two days, we were shown how formative preschool years may shape a child's personality in the future:

Born~Year 1: Children learn to trust, to love and be loved.

Year 1~Year 3: Children learn about boundary and learn to respect boundary.

Year 3~Year 6: Children learn to tell from imagination to reality, from falsehood to truth.

Year 6~Year 12: Children learn about responsibility and cooperation.

Five books by Jonathan D. Spence

（介紹出生英國、落腳美國、研究中國的史學家史景遷的書。史景遷不太分析，不好道理，但是說了一手的好故事，把過去的人事物，大大小小或重要不重要，說得淋漓盡致，其實是相當了不起的功夫。）

In this interview, 'As luck would have it', the British American historian Jonathan D. Spence said, "History was somehow something that gave me an anchor in, admittedly, other people's lives", but he "wasn't prepared to generalise with no guidance...[he] wanted to have things shapeable...one could really organise these  events of the past in a different way". And he made a wonderful presentation with his one and only case, China.