While on a long road trip we were listening to Rudyard Kipling's "How the first alphabet was written" in which ...,
"The Stranger-man (and he was a Tewara) thought, 'This is a very,
very wonderful child. She waves her arms and she shouts at me,
but I don't understand a word of what she says. But if I don't do
what she wants, I greatly fear that that haughty Chief,
Man-who-turns-his-back-on-callers, will be angry.' He got up and
twisted a big flat piece of bark off a birch-tree and gave it to
Taffy. He did this, Best Beloved, to show that his heart was as
white as the birch-bark and that he meant no harm; but Taffy
didn't quite understand."
I had absolutely no trouble splaining what a birch-tree looks like and how white the stranger man (who was a genuine Tewara)'s heart was!
This is one of our all time favorites and if you have not yet read Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling with your children, please do so, it is a delight! Tantor Media does an excellent job of it on tape most probably available at your local library.
I think this is the most beautiful evergreen we've seen so far. It's long swaying leaves reminded me of a very good hair day.
While attending the Passion of the Christ play at Andrews University we found ourselves in the wrong group. Aways into the program it occurred to us that everyone was speaking Spanish when the part about "crucify him" din't seem to be coming . That's when I considered taking up Spanish...the consideration lasted about seven minutes until the trees distracted our Spanish-speaking ambitions. So we wandered the beautiful grounds hugging the trees and looking for the English speaking peoples. Nearly missed half the program but the nature study was well worth it.
PRAISE TO THE RISEN CHRIST!
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