Dec
12
Clarification
Stella was walking slowly down the stairs, thoughtfully sucking her thumb. Suddenly she pulled her thumb from her mouth and turned back toward me.
“If I’m outdoors, is it okay to take spit out of my mouth?”
“No,” I said. ”You always keep your spit inside your mouth.”
“But I mean at trees and plants and stuff,” she said.
I wavered.
“It’s watering,” she insisted.
