Picking up from yesterday here were my own responses to the questions we had each been given…

Why do bunnies have pink noses? Because of jelly beans.

How do birds fly? Because they have wings.

What makes the pictures in my TV? Modern invention.

Where does the color blue come from? A wheel of balance.

Why do we have two ears? To hear better.

Where does our thinking go when we sleep? The recesses of our minds.

Why are our teeth white? We don’t smoke or drink coffee.

What do wild monkeys eat? Oatmeal in children’s bowls.

Why is the sky blue? It’s light out.

What makes the subway cars go? Motors and wheels.

Why do we have fingerprints? So we can leave a mark.

How do fish not drown? They have filters.

How do lightbulbs work? Energy through switch flipping.

Why is dirt brown? To make mud pies.

How do planes stay in the air? Due to a disillusioned altitude.

Why do we have fingernails? We will claw our way out.

What are dreams? Different versions of reality.

Why is today Tuesday? It wanted to be.

Why is water wet? What is wet?

What do worms do all day? Tunnel through the tough spots.

How does ice get to be ice? It froze when it was ready.

How does the refrigerator stay cold inside? We close the door and stay plugged in.

How (or why) do trees grow leaves? Its the next step in the process.

…And now this is the paragraph that I somewhat haphazardly put together before I knew what its theme was supposed to reveal:

Modern invention. Its the next step in the process; a wheel of balance so we can leave a mark. We close the door and stay plugged in due to a disillusioned altitude. We don’t smoke or drink coffee but the recesses of our minds tell us that the light is out. To hear better we have filters; different versions of reality. We have motors and wheels to create energy through switch-flipping. It froze when it thought it needed to but we do have wings and there are jelly beans, oatmeal in children’s bowls, and the makings of mud pies. All of this to tunnel through the tough spots. We may not know what wet is but we’ll claw our way out if thats the way we want things to be.

…Once I read this aloud, with the idea of it being a view on how I look at life, it just really caused me to think. I’m not sure yet what I fully make of it but somehow it fits for me. Somehow it makes sense. The response I got from my peers was mostly that it showed that I saw life and what is going on around me as something to question. They didn’t mean question in a bad way…more so that I apparently have an optimism to change and I see that as a good thing. For some reason, though, I see the writing as more. I agree with what they said but it hits me personally on a different lever. Maybe its just a different intensity. I have to sort it out a bit more but, above anything else, it makes me feels good and if thats all I take from it then thats enough but I think I will still do some exploring.