the but tutcher is not the only crazy among my spawn

[mcctatas]

my 13 year old daughter wrote this about an oil pastel picture she recently did. I am both impressed and a little terrified :P


As I type, ladies and germs, there are eyes on me, green, pussy, bloodshot. These eyes are green, yellow-green and blue-green as well as the average Joe green. These eyes have dark circles, black and purple under these eyes, wide with yellow and green mixing like paint, like oil pastel. There is little white on these eyes. And ladies and germs...there is BLOOD coming from these eyes.
The face? Pale, sickly, veins everywhere like a frantic purple spiderweb under this persons flesh. Green is a tint on the skin, red, purple, blue, brown scrape on the cheek to add to the color spectrum. Their nose is rather like a child's, red as well, and there is pus and a small trickle of blood from this nose.
Reddish lips, pus crusting the corners of their mouth, black around the edges, green is a present color I do believe. And there is pus and blood oozing from the mouth...
And this, observer, is an oil pastel drawing I made at three a.m. last night, doing nothing other than watching 'Nick at Night'. And as I drew in the silence, with cheap oil pastels one word came to mind, rolled off my tongue like a diver off the high board. "Pueblo" I said (pway-blow) and I kept hearing it in my mind. I figured it must be Spanish, so as I got home today, I looked up pueblo on a Spanish - English translator.

In one search, Pueblo meant Town
In another, Pueblo meant people.
When entered into Dictionary.Com
Peublo meant the following:
"a large number of people who share the same history, ancestors, culture etc (whether or not they all live in the same country)"


So then...why the heck did it come to mind?

[mzteris]

1. holy cow!

can you post a pic of her pic? THAT would be very interesting to see...

Her writing is quite - er - interesting - as well.

[mcctatas]

2. I am going to work on that, have to take a picture of the original

and then upload it, but it is pretty amazing (OK but I may be biased :P )

[Chellee]

3. rolled off my tongue like a diver off the high board

that's good

[mcctatas]

4. especially considering the fact that she can't swim :P

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

5. What's that saying?

You know, the one about how the apple doesn't fall far from the tree? :)