Circles...Sort of...

Angela likes to draw. She draws with crayons. With pencils. With pens. She draws with anything that will draw. She especially enjoys drawing flowers, or watching you draw a flower for her and then taking it from you to admire it, after which she will add her own finishing touch.

When Angela has made her "finishing touch," your flower will no longer resemble a flower at all.

Angela likes to draw circles even more than she does flowers. If she had the attention span, I'm sure she would sit in her favorite spot at the window all day, with her bucket of crayons and pad of paper, and draw circles.

Every time Angela takes a crayon from the bucket, she announces its color to you before beginning her work. Just in case you were wondering whether that purple crayon really was purple. Or the green, Actually green. If she happens to select a paler shade of crayon, like yellow or white, and discovers it doesn't show on her off-white-colored paper, she furrows her brow and hands the offending object to you indignantly.
"This one doesn't work very well," she will say. But, upon finding one that suits both her fancy and her need to see her masterpiece, she sets her crayon to the paper enthusiastically and makes a shape.










No matter the true shape of this shape that Angela makes, whether it has three sides, four sides, six sides or no sides at all, she will claim it as Circle. As you can see above, this particular one--which is not an Angela original, but a copy done by myself for the purpose of emphasis--is not very similar to the shape we all know as the circle. It looks more like the letter "A" with a very long antenna.

But, whatever the blob of color actually is, you don't argue with Angela if she dubs it Circle. If you try, the closest you will get to consent is her admittance that it might be shaped more like a cloud (which, in my experience, can be shaped like a number of things. Why, just yesterday I saw one that looked like a praying walrus wearing spectacles. Or perhaps it was holding binoculars), but is still, in spirit, a circle.

I tried my own hand at circles but, although in picture mine more closely resembled Webster's description of the word, I couldn't help but feel it lacked some of the liberalism that Angela's portrayed.