In searching blog archives, I was hoping to find for you the video of a 4-year-old Joel. He has always mulled things over in his head. You know he’s really chewing on things, because out pops a totally creative new perspective. A tiny window on the world all his own. A completely different sense of this wacky world.
In the video he asks a good question:
“Since God can do anything, can He swim even where there is no water?”
I assume Joel would like to try swimming in the air when we get to Eternity… =)
My Creative Little Prince’s wheels have been turning through First Grade.
Well, a couple days ago, he explained to me his version of the Circle of Life.
He’s really put weeks of thought into it:
zebras eat grass
grass eats dirt
dirt eats water/rain
water/rain eats clouds
clouds eat airplanes
airplanes eat people
people eat lions
etc.
*insert cool circular graph here*
It makes me think, then laugh, then think again…
I think I love ‘airplanes eat people’ the best. It took me a long time to digest that one. Figuratively, people walk in and look like they are ‘consumed’. Like a large animal swallowing up it’s little passengers for dinner. Where does he come up with this stuff? But we’ve been in enough airplanes to consider them banale (French for ‘commonplace’, only better than just that).
Then the banale beast of prey disappears and is ‘eaten’ by a cloud. This is almost like one of those phone commercials where each new frame leads us to another world entirely. Don’t you just love to see the way kids think? I hope Joel’s Circle of Life gives you a chuckle today. We could all use a little more childlikeness.
I guess I do feel a bit like I’ve been in the belly of a whale after a 10-hr flight…
Joel’s Circle of Life by Kimberly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
1 Comment
Heather · April 24, 2011 at 4:12 am
That is hilarious, and quite brilliant! Your kids have fantastic out-of-the-box thinking skills. “Clouds eat airplanes/ Airplanes eat people”… that could be the answer to one of those mind-bending riddles.
He is risen! Happy Easter,
Heather & family