Seeing What He Sees

What do you see when you look at this image? I can’t make out a damn thing. To my eyes it looks like crappy track lighting that I should be updating. Oh, there’s a heating vent and smoke alarm there too. This is what my son sees when he’s lying on his back on the downstairs ottoman, and for him it’s the greatest spectacle on earth. Seriously, he will stare up at this arrangement for hours, laughing and smiling like he’s watching a particularly funny episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. I just don’t see the humorous element in this image. It doesn’t move. It doesn’t make sounds. It’s completely devoid of color. And yet, he’ll actually get grumpy if you take him away from staring at this scene. When he finally learns to talk, I’m going to have a few questions for him.

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