Allow me to Illustrate…
Posted by Aragoen Celtdra on October 30th, 2008
On our way to work this morning, the sun had barely touched the horizon and it brought with it an awesome collage of purple, orange, yellow, and pink.
After my wife dropped me off to work, she and our two-year old drove further west so she can drop him off to his grandma’s, and she to get her first-grade classroom ready for the day. As they were driving towards their destination, the sky started to paint an even brighter and colorful picture – complete with puffy, feathery clouds embossed in purple and gray lining, and swirlying colors of orange and yellow. It is the same scence I’m looking at while standing by the huge glass window in the office. I then get a call from my wife and she describes as verbatim as she could how my two-year old son described what he saw:
“Wow, dats byuuutifulll!”
“The sun painted the sky.”
“The sun is the illoostrater*”
A simple observation from a two-year old, but yet the novelty of a beautiful morning skyline still amazes them. Nowadays, grownups like myself rarely look up and just let ourselves be amazed by such simple (and at the same time complex) things.
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*Illustrator: it’s our nightly routine to read to our son before he goes to sleep. He usually goes through about 5 or so children’s book before he is satisfied. He has learned that the author is “the one who writes the book” and the illustrator is the “one who draws the cool pictures”.