Sunday, March 06, 2011

In the details. . .

From left, Birdie, Grandma, Grandpa, Emily. Coffee stains by Grandpa.
Like most children, Emily loves to draw pictures of the world around her, paper and pencil representations of the way a happy little girl sees things.
Most would say that her grandfather is as bald as a billiard ball, but not Emily. Close examination of her frequent drawings of him always reveals a meticulously-detailed coiffure. Time after time, this feature is carefully repeated.
Hands and ears may be entirely left out of the work, but grandpa's hair is a fact, far too great to be denied. True, each shaft may be numbered, but they are certainly not trifles carelessly overlooked.
So there.