The Mind of Puck
We were stuck in traffic on the drive to school that morning, as usual. But Puck didn’t notice because his nose was buried deep in the Action Bible, a recent gift from his Aunt Onion.
“Did people know how to swim back in Bible times?” he asked, as we drove over the Page Extension Bridge.
“Sure, they did. As long as they lived by water. But I guess if you lived in the mountains and not by a lake or the sea, you might not even know what swimming was. Only royalty probably had swimming pools back then.”
“But they still needed water to drink from some place.”
“True. But it could be they only had little streams or wells, so maybe the idea of swimming was something they couldn’t understand.”
I enjoy our conversation drives.
As we pulled up to school, Puck closed the Action Bible. “You know, Mom, the stories Jesus told were actually very interesting. I like to see them in pictures.”
Inside, Yali marched right up to the lady in the office who keeps an eternal stash of goldfish crackers and raisins ready for hungry kiddos such as himself. He stood in front of her with his head tilted back, staring up at her, until she noticed him.
“Oh, Yali! You came to see me!” She picked him up and escorted him to her desk where her husband had just delivered a vase of roses for her birthday. “This is my other boyfriend,” she told him, cuddling Yali close.
A morning podcast followed. Then Carrie-Bri made pie crust cookies with Yali while thunder rumbled in the northwest but didn’t do much of anything at all. Meanwhile, Mom was preparing to leave for Germany on Wednesday.
During dinner, Puck filled me in on his learning of the day.
“Mom! You know how Leonardo DaVinci painted The Lord’s Supper on something somewhere, on some wall?”
“Yes…”
“Well, he thought he’d make the paint dry by putting a fire around the painting.” He waited a second for that fact to hit me. “WHAT WAS HE THINKING?! It all turned into syrup!”
Once Yali was tucked in for the night, the three of us camped down in the basement with some anniversary Reese’s minis and pieces, and several episodes of the boys’ favorite new show: “Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street”.