My freshman year of college, I majored in Theater. One of my required classes was Phonetics. One of the many things Professor Caldwell said that I remember to this day was how funny the dichotomy is between a word's sound and its meaning. For instance, the word 'church' is generally thought to bring to mind a place of harmony and worship, yet the word itself is quite brutish on the tongue. Conversely, the word 'latrine' flows out of the mouth and yet it means a military toilet; conjuring images and odors not so pleasant!
I present to you a visual example of this thinking. I took these pictures several weeks back on a camping trip. I am pleased at how they turned out. They make me happy when I look at them.
However, after taking several shots of the older three boys, Chad informed me that he'd been emptying the pee bucket by throwing its contents into that same patch of grass.
