Those Questions

Monday, February 6, 2012

LABEL: Those Questions

“Why did God make the Earth and the planets, Mama?”
“To glorify Him.”
“Oh. Why did He make the Sun bigger than the Earth?”
“To keep us warm and make it light.”
“Oh. But why did He make it bigger?”
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“Who wrote the Bible?”
“God did.”
“No. Chosen men who wrote by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.”
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“Can God sing with his eyes?”

Such were the questions of a young boy wearing a praying mantis t-shirt in the house on the tiny hill that morning.

While Collette had taken her walk, Puck, busy with magic markers and stuffed animals, carried the whole basket of said creatures out of his room…
“I’m sitting down an audience in my room [kitchen],” he explained, “so they can see what I’m going to do.”
Some of that magic marker, namely the pink, ended up on the antique quilt, which was Oxi-cleaned and prepared for the wash.

OLeif, with 92 days remaining to his semester, returned at a satisfying time of 4:35 that evening to join Puck in a plate of chicken fajitas and Leon Redbone, whose background OLeif attempted to sketch for them…
“Hitler was his father… No? Bing Crosby was his brother… What? Stop being so obnoxious!”

And the evening was concluded with editing the final chapters of Collette’s next book, pomegranate dark chocolates shared with OLeif, who was busy organizing the 30,000 images by date on his computer, and the second part of a Japanese film set in 1940: Kabei Our Mother.