I was drawing a airplane/submarine fight scene with my buddy Jud before church on Sunday. He was showing me how to draw certain inside controls and how to draw particular kinds of airplanes, and I was trying my hardest to maintain his standards. Jud is 5 years old, the youngest of three boys in our community. I'm friends with all of the kids, Elliot and Wesley (ages 8 & 11), but Jud has taken the greatest liking to me. When the other boys come up and try to talk to me Jud usually looks at them when they start to talk and then slowly starts to push them/hit them/kick them/cover their mouths until they go away. This is what every person should, I think. Especially girls. But I digress. Jud once called me a stand-up guy. That's how cool he is.
So I asked him a question.
"Can I ask you what's scariest, an airplane with guns or a dinosaur?" He had previously given me several plastic dinosaurs, one of which sits on my desk at work.
"No, you know what's scariest? I'll tell you it's a volcano. You want to know why? Because when it explodes...the fire goes (he makes a 'spew' sound and motions with hands) into the air and then it comes down everywhere. And one time there were these people when the volcano exploded and there were caves and they went into the caves and the lava went all around it and that's how they were safe."
"Wow. They were safe?"
"Yeah because they went into the caves."
"So a volcano is scariest?"
"Yes."
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It finally snowed today. A lot. It warmed up and melted, but not knowing that any snow was coming it was a welcome suprise when I opened my eyes this morning and peered out the window. I don't have cable so I haven't been watching The Weather Channel, and thus TV, very often. So this snowfall truly caught me off guard. Pleasant.
