spoke in details that i'd never considered. as he talked he drew lines on the plastic tablecloth. he talked about what a tree looks like in winter as opposed to summer. he talked about what direction the sun would shine and how the snow would settle on the branches. he had us all mesmerized as his marker moved gracefully over the once white plastic tablecloth.
then he said that we needed some sky and he pulled out a blue marker. with just a few scribbles he transformed those brown squiggles on a white tablecloth into a silhouette of a tree on a bright sunny day with fresh snow all around. jared 