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Sunday, July 21, 2013

A Place Of Endless Wonder

Flowers, stars, the sun, leaves, people....
Hi, Friends.  Well, now that I'm on the home stretch of my second trip around the sun, I've got to say, I think I've come to a place of endless wonder.

No, no.  Hear me out!

You see, when I got here, the place was green, and it was pretty warm.  For part of the time, it was dark, and the rest of the time, it was light.  Sometimes, water would fall from the air, and that fascinated me!

Next thing I knew, the green started turning orange and red, and it started getting cooler.  I'd have a heavier blanket over me when Mommy and Daddy took me out in my carrier.  I smelled new smells in the air like woodsmoke and cold.

The red and orange gave way to brown, and then to gray, and sometimes, big white flakes would fall from the sky.  Now THAT was magical!  I could lie in my crib at night and listen to the wind whip and whistle through the bare trees outside my window, and just when I started to think that this was how the world was going to stay, the sky turned blue again, and I noticed little buds on the trees outside my window.  I noticed the world smelled kind of wet, and green, and before I knew it, I woke up one morning, and brrrrrrrrring!  It was green again, just like it was when I got here!

Only this time around, what I used to think was green blobs was really little leaves on the trees, and blades of grass!  I could feel the sun on my skin, as long as I put on the thick, white suntan lotion, and wore my hat.  I could sit outside and watch the clouds go across the sky.

And then it happened all over again, just like everything knew what to do, all by itself!  The leaves on the trees turned red and orange and brown, then a storm came along and blew them right off.  I got so I didn't mind wearin' soxieshooz, because my feet would get COLD without 'em!  When the big white flakes fell from the sky this time around, Daddy took me out in a bright orange sled and let me RIDE in that cold stuff, which is SNOW, and I found out Rozzie-Dog LOVES it when you make little snowballs and toss them to her, so she can catch 'em right out of the air and eat 'em!

It seemed to take a little while for things to warm up this trip around the sun, but here it is, summer again, and I love taking my soxieshooz off and running through the grass, especially right after Mommy mows it.  I love that smell, and I love watching my toes turn kinda green!  I can sit for minutes, watching the clouds sail through the air, and this year, I can see SHAPES in those clouds!  And then there's the MOOON and the STARS up in the sky, and who knows, but maybe there's little men on the moon, making green cheese, and maybe those stars have their own planets like ours, with little people on 'em, just like us.  How about that?!

Oh, my goodness, and bubbles.  Anybody who doesn't think the world is a place of endless wonder has obviously not spent enough time in the company of bubbles.  I love the way they come out of the bubble wand and grow, and they have all the different colors in 'em, but you can see through 'em, and also they reflect the things around them.  I guess that's called iridescence and translucence, if you wanna be technical.

....The world is full of endless wonder!
Flowers.  Friends, flowers are right up there with bubbles for me.  Even the dandylines in the yard.  Those dandylines are pretty cool.  One day, they're yellow like the sun, and the next day, they're white puffballs.

I don't know, Friends.  To me, I think this world is a place of endless wonder, and we get to live in it.  I know I'm still new around here, but just about every day, something I see just makes me stop and drop my jaw open in awe and wonder.  It kinda makes me think that if everybody got to see the world through new eyes, everybody'd be so taken aback at just how amazing everything is, that they wouldn't have any time left to fight.  They just wouldn't have it in 'em. 

That's what I think, anyway, Friends.  So promise me something, would you?  Today, if you get to feelin' grumpy because it's too hot, or you got bad news, or you're just in a mood, go outside and see the world the way I see it.  Go take in some of the endless wonder.

I love ya, Friends!  Muah!

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