Luce

when i get married me and my wife are going to scatter peas all throughout our apartment and then whenever we feel like it we can throw peas at each other and have a real fun time

back when I first started doing photography I had the difficult task of asking all my subjects for their permission to use their image in a photograph.  it wasn’t until I finally read the law books that I realized you don’t have to ask permission to take pictures of birds.  birds don’t have the same legal rights as humans apparently.  outrageous but true

this morning on yard duty, i saved a large, sleepy bumble bee from some children who were gonna stomp on it because children are afraid of things. the bee was cold, and moving very slowly, not up to flying yet. i picked up the bee and it climbed my arm. the children screamed. i told them it was ok. the bee got onto my neck and into my hair. the children kept telling me that it was in my hair. i turned my head so the bee was in the sun. i stood there with the children and the bee until it warmed up and flew away. see, i said, it didn’t hurt me. if you don’t hurt things, they usually don’t hurt you. 

I went back to this school after a week away and a boy in year one in the lunch line said to me “remember when you holded the bee?”

pure

The voice in your head is your true voice and your actual spoken voice is just the closest your voice box can get to it.