Boy Swallows Universe

by Trent Dalton

He’s singing the theme song to Diff’rent Strokes. It’s a song about understanding and inclusion and difference; about how some are born with less than others and more than others at the same time. It’s a song about connection.

Different Strokes

Maybe we’d all be much more effective communicators if we all shut up more.

‘Get goin’,’ he says. ‘You’re runnin’ outta time.’ ‘Do your time, hey Slim?’ He nods. ‘Before it does you,’ he says.