Ah, it is so good to know that I mean so much to someone…to know that I mean enough to receive gifts of affection and expression like those following. But what do they mean? Let's take a closer look.
Exhibit A
First, a transliteration, and then we'll move on to translation.
The sweet and endearing message seems to read: "I love you you rok and it is osum haw you do the nigs I love you Dad". Translated that probably means, "I love you. You rock, and it is awesome how you do things. I love you Dad." Sentiments expressed in such simple, honest words are truly invaluable.
But that it only half the message. A picture, they say, is worth a thousand words. Let us attempt some visual literacy of the images associated with the words. Clearly, Thea's artistic abilities are advancing to include the use of side profile--she is turned sideways. Unfortunately I am not. Which begs the question, why am I a monocle-wearing cyclops? Maybe she subconsciously blames me (more than I originally thought) for moving her to Texas? But she is ever the optimist--I count seven hairs on my head in this picture, her generosity knows no bounds. I appear to be either leaping or levitating with joy as she looks happily on…before I'm attacked by ethereal, sky-dwelling jellyfish! A pair of flowers look quizzically on.
Exhibit B
Where to begin?!
First off, please be assured that Thea has been made aware of the dispensation of grace, and the doctrine of Christ's substitutionary atonement. But maybe her worship demands more than a verbal expression of gratitude for the propitiation of Christ? If anyone is worried that the creature being sacrificed is a mammal--perhaps of the bunnyish, sheepish sort--please be at ease. I count six legs on that altar. I have never known any mammal to have six legs. And who might the disembodied, fu manchu + goatee wearing, double-chinned head be? His catlike eyes look contentedly on as he slides down the sunbeam. The idea of a girl stands beside the altar (also a disembodied--though faceless--head), but she has not yet been fully actualized into this fanciful, sacrificial transworld.
I love my daughters!
