Laowai

Sometimes Bea reminds me so so much of my dad. Last Friday she came home and asked me to go with her to get some aquatic creatures. She's very interested in the tiny living things that you find in water. It's just like my dad – he was always picking up a river rock and turning it over to see what was living there. He sometimes kept an aquarium full of river water  and now Bea has done the same. Dad would show me the nymphs and tell me about them enthusiastically and Bea does that same thing. She calls me over to her microscope like it's an emergency that I see the internal organs of a tiny aquatic animal. Mom has given Bea many of dad's old books about aquatic insects and she looks through them and learns about the things she sees in her microscope.

I love it.

I love it so much that I overlook that fact that my dining room is now her laboratory.

Here is a photo that she made by layering many microscope photos.