There are some things I wonder about literature.
We have chickens now. Of course. They are not giving eggs yet. Big drag for me. But that’s not what I am thinking of eggs-actly.
Humpty-Dumpty was one big dang egg. I wonder what laid him?
(And all you gutter-brains out there…. Don’t say “his girlfriend”….and that’s why they called him Humpty.) Seriously. I wonder what the heck gave birth to old Mr. Humpty D.
Okay. While we are on names. How about Winnie the Pooh. His name is Winnie. Not Pooh. I am not sure what a Pooh is… some kind of a stuffed bear, I suppose. But the dude’s name is Winnie.
Why in the heck would Ms. Muffet choose to eat Curds and Whey? I mean really… she was having the lumps and liquid found in cottage cheese. Yes. Eating her Cottage Cheese.
So…. “Along came a spider, who looked at her knees.”
The next one is sad.
Hansel and Gretel may be the first documented case of parental abuse. I’m pretty sure of it.
Speaking of sad….
My Mom never gave me a spoonful of sugar, to help the medicine go down. And I didn’t have a Nanny. Unless you count my Evil Stepsisters… who really weren’t Stepsisters. But now we are getting personal.
The Hookah-Smoking Caterpillar in Alice In Wonderland was really a Mushroom-Pushing Drug Dealer. And was it all really just a dream?
I am surprised that I still love to eat Ham, after reading the likes of Charlotte’s Web, and Babe: The Gallant Pig. Those pigs found out about going to slaughter, and they still liked us humans. Animals are forgiving that way.
Which brings me to this. Life has its ups-and-downs for everyone, I think. We all fall off walls, and get scared by little things that may drop into our lives. Sometimes people don’t get our names right, or treat us as nicely as we would like. In rare historical cases, people have been sent to slaughter.
But maybe we could learn something from The Gallant Pig.
Those who can offer forgiveness are amazing. Or… as Charlotte said… Radiant, Humble, Terrific and Some Pig.
Maybe some day, I will be as terrific as the pig.
“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together?
Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.”
― Emery Allen
We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.
— Marilyn Monroe