I'll tell you a half-dozen things that happened to me in Indiana when I went that far west to teach. You tell me if it was worth it. I lived in the country with my dog— part of the bargain of coming. And there was a pond with fish from, I think, China. I felt them sometimes against my feet. Also, they crept out of the pond, along its edges, to eat the grass. I'm not lying. And I saw coyotes, two of them, at dawn, running over the seemingly unenclosed fields. And once a deer, but a buck, thick-necked, leaped into the road just-oh, I mean just, in front of my car— and we both made it home safe. And once the blacksmith came to care for the four horses, or the three horses that belonged to the owner of the house, and I bargained with him, if I could catch the fourth, he, too, would have hooves trimmed for the Indiana winter, and apples did it, and a rope over the neck did it, so I won something wonderful; and there was, one morning, an owl flying, oh pale angel, into the hay loft o
Poor old charlie brown, I often wondered how he carries that big skull around! It's obvious now, looking at the skeletal portrait, that it's to do with the elongated metatarsals and phalanges.... Hope your week-end is a good one!
ReplyDeleteYou know you are funny when you crack yourself up. Keep laughing. Because then we get to laugh, too.
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ReplyDeleteHey. You're supposed to keep the skeletons in the closet.
ReplyDeleteGo forth now and heal the world.
Ah, laughter, the best medicine! Now I know what all those nurses exchange with each other to keep their spirits up through long nightwatches.
ReplyDeleteI laughed pretty hard when I saw that. It's a new take on Peanuts, that's for sure.
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