Today we were more than a little disappointed because the keeper did not participate in the Black Friday madness. This means she did not try to find our hamsters. But instead she took a long walk outside because it was such a beautiful day. And she let us go outside as well. But it was chilly and we ruffed up our fur to sun ourselves on the hot tub. She brought back wild tales of what she had seen and heard throughout her walk.
She had set out in a disturbed sense of being after reading about the human smuggler who kept the immigrants in a garage with a lock on the refrigerator, who sexually abused the children, and who threatened to cut out the tongues of anyone who reported him. She knows that this goes on all over the place and that the community does too. And thank God for the children who told their teachers about what was happening to them. They may be able to get a special visa to stay here now.
But on the walk her spirits lightened. " . . .(N)ature is never spent..." She found flowers still blooming in the middle of twigs and brush and rose hips, she found holly berries heavy on stems, she found a space ship that had landed in a neighbor's driveway. She saw Kirkland across the lake, a stone lion who had been unable to protect his deceased owners' home from the new owner's rehab efforts. She saw pumpkins recycled into turkeys with ridiculous polka dot bows.
And she stood and listened to the creek running brightly through the neighborhood woods.
And she saw a sign pleading for everyone to look for Milo, an orange and white cat. As soon as she got home, she made us come inside for the rest of the day. We are being kept safe from feline smugglers, those coyotes with four legs instead of two.
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