Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for June 19, 2016

Once again, Richard posted a blog entry for just this strip.

kids sure have such amazing imaginations

I use to look at the clouds… and it always gave me great ideas for stories.

Dill for the win!At last, a kid who sees clouds for what they are, rather than trying to make them into something they are not, and still appreciates them!

I’ve looked at clouds from both sides nowFrom up and down and still somehowIt’s cloud illusions I recallI really don’t know clouds at all

Joni Mitchell.

HAMLET

Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel?

LORD POLONIUS

By the mass, and ’tis like a camel, indeed.

HAMLET

Methinks it is like a weasel.

LORD POLONIUS

It is backed like a weasel.

HAMLET

Or like a whale?

LORD POLONIUS

Very like a whale.

I used to imagine what it would be like to walk on clouds, jumping over things and climbing mountains.

CloudyMy thoughts are scattered and they’re cloudy,They have no borders, no boundaries.They echo and they swellFrom Tolstoy to Tinker Bell.Down from Berkeley to Carmel.

Love Dill’s observations, and Alice & Beni’s revenge on him for one-upping them.

Reminds me of this great old Peanuts cartoon.

Never knew Dill was such a deep thinker. Good for him. But he is missing here the great imagination of kids.