Deep in the Learning Dutch website is a video.  The challenge is to learn the numbers from 1 to 100.  I find it hard to wrap my mind around the basic structure.  If I’m looking for 75, the word starts with the 5 and ends with the 7.  Vijfenzeventig.

The video goes above and beyond a language lesson.  Yes, I hear the numbers spoken – by a five-year-old, ten, twenty … as I see their open faces.  The whole life span before my eyes. 

I was transported to the vastness, the wonder of beholding members of the human family.  My family … and yours.

Here they are:

And each has a story to tell