This site has moved. Dave W. is doing a thought exercise to interpret a particular picture. Everyone who's been responding to it has a different point of view.
Some common themes come out, but there is variety among the mix.
At the writer's workshop I went to, we discussed the first parargraph. Not necessarily the first paragraph that the writer lays down, but, in the end, the paragraph that is placed at the beginning of the whole work. After hearing a first paragraph from a short story, and talking about what it did for us, what expectations it set up, what tone, what conflict it alluded to, we all wrote a first paragraph ourselves. Three or four people read their paragraphs aloud. It was striking how different each treatment was.