Little Questioners Gifts

"So, what do you do for play?"

I've been teaching art history for decades. Students today ask new kinds of questions. No, I doubt a gluten-free menu option was available that evening. Nope, the artist was not making a statement about climate change. No, despite the umbrellas, this is not about sun exposure safety. Well, yes, I suppose you can say it's a selfie.

Wildlife

'Hey! Contemplate your own navel!'

Garden.

"You're 5 years old now, Timmy. It's about time you retain an attorney."

"Wa-wa. . . wa-wa. . . wa-wa. . ."

"Daddy, why do people pull round pizza from square boxes and cut them into triangles before they eat them?"

'If it 'tells' the time, why do I have to look at it?'

"I'm going crazy staring at the same four legs."

"You're using the boogeyman as an excuse to shut me out."

"When will I be old enough to have an inner child?"

Ostrich Curoisities

'If you'll excuse me, I'm going to work the room.'

'But why do you want to transmute asparagus into cotton?'

Why can't you use the brains God gave you? Oh, shoot, I think this is Bob's.

"I think it’s time we started holding other kids’ hands."

What's the antidote for wheat germ?

'If you get educational toys, do you still have to go to school?'

Upside down question mark hanging from fishing line.

"What's it all about?"

'When a doctor looks in your ear with that pointy thing- what's he looking for...?'

'Dad, tell me again what life's about.'

'You may choose either everlasting life or whatever is behind the curtain.'

'What's all this 'naughty or nice' jazz? ? Haven't you ever heard of situational ethics?'

"Do you think it's an accident of history that Freemasons live in houses and we live in trees?"

'Am I covered if a car falls on my tree?'

"I can do this all day, marshmallow. I have a bright life ahead of me. You, on the other hand... I'm not so sure."

On a mountain top a sign says - Out to lunch back a week from Tuesday.

"Does this bird make me look fat?"

"Even Voldemort wouldn't drown a whole planet."

A child climbs on a stack of books to reach a large metal key.

Ask Sadie. Actual questions from actual readers! Celestial Sadie, In the Western sky after sunset, Jupitor can be seen nearly aligned with Venus. What do you make of this? R. Yates. Excellent question. That reminds me of a long lost civilization, in which there was no such thing as a typo. Where no one ever hit the wrong key because they wrote letters by hand. Eventually, it became so obsessed with speed that it began typing everything, and so inconsiderate that it soon stopped bothering to proo

'The meaning of life? -- You CAN take a joke, can't you?'

'But if night falls, why does day break?'