outside the lines

Last night my kids colored me pictures.


Girl chose deep colors, pressed hard.  The effect; jewel tones, rich and distinctive.  
Yes she is, I thought to myself.

Boy looped and looped, circles and swirls of barely perceptible yellow, swoops of red, blue, black and varying shades of green.  "What is it?", I dared to question.  "Circles", he responded.   How obvious and how had I missed that?   Then he looked at it a long time with me and said, "I like to go around and around and sometimes I like to color outside the lines.

I too like to go round and round and sometimes I like to color outside the lines as well...

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