Seeing Orange (2012)
“Carling lets me go to Goldstream after all. It’s a long, bumpy ride on the orange school bus. At the park, a biologist cuts open a dead salmon. She teaches us not to say Yuck! but rather, How interesting! The salmon’s heart is a deep red-purple. Its liver is purple-brown. Its brain is white! The biologist tells us that a salmon’s eye weighs more than its brain does! It makes me wonder if salmon think with their eyes. I sometimes feel that I do.
The biologist holds one of the fish’s eyeballs bet...ween her thumb and finger, and we take turns looking through it. Everything is upside down! The fish’s brain turns everything right-side up again. The biologist says our brains do the same thing.
I go into the woods and lie down along the long trunk of a fallen tree. I stretch my head back so everything is upside down. I just lie there listening, watching the tree branches take root in the blue sky. I close my eyes. The moss and leaves smell good. Then I hear heavy footsteps.
I open my eyes.MoreLess
The biologist holds one of the fish’s eyeballs bet...ween her thumb and finger, and we take turns looking through it. Everything is upside down! The fish’s brain turns everything right-side up again. The biologist says our brains do the same thing.
I go into the woods and lie down along the long trunk of a fallen tree. I stretch my head back so everything is upside down. I just lie there listening, watching the tree branches take root in the blue sky. I close my eyes. The moss and leaves smell good. Then I hear heavy footsteps.
I open my eyes.MoreLess
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