Gather around, all of you. Look with me at this drawing. What do you see? Yes, that’s right, a squirrel. A happy squirrel?
Yes.
Climbing a tree, that’s right. Stop pushing. This is a marker drawing of a squirrel climbing a tree, under a cloud under the sun. Would you say this is a sunny day or a cloudy day? “Partly cloudy” is a good answer, the kind a meteorologist would give. But if you think about the artist designing this tall rectangular panel, he chose to put a big iconic cloud and a big iconic sun right in there. Please don’t lean on the walls, okay? The squirrel probably thinks it’s a cloudy day, because the cloud is closer to him and would block the sun from his vision.
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