One Flower

By Geraldine Rauscher

A: My garden has one flower.

B: Then it is not a garden.

A: My garden has one flower.

B: No it is not a garden, a garden consists of many flowers, yours only has one. It is merely a flower.

A: My garden has one flower. I water it everyday, I make sure the bugs stay away.

B: I see, I see. You take good care of it. But, it is only one, it cannot be a garden.

C: What are you all discussing?

B: A garden with one flower.

C: A garden cannot have one flower. Do you mean one flower in bloom?

A: No, I have a garden it has one flower.

C: Oh, you must be planning on planting more?

A: No.

B: Can a garden have one flower C.

C: Well, I guess…

B: No, no, no. It is just one flower.

C: Well, A is in control of her garden. If it is a garden with one flower, then it is a garden with one flower.

B: I cannot see the point in having a garden if there is only one. That is like a city with one person, an army with one soldier, a colony with one ant, a herd with only one sheep.

C: I think it will be a beautiful garden A. A: Thank you C.

B: I don’t understand.

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Little Turtle Big Turtle

By Geraldine Rauscher

Little Turtle was a little turtle.

Big Turtle was a big turtle.

For every step Big Turtle took, Little Turtle took ten.

One day Little Turtle challenged Big Turtle to a race. Confident he would win, Big Turtle agreed.

At the end of the race, as expected, Big Turtle won first place.

“Why did you challenge me to a race you couldn’t win?” asked Big Turtle.

Little Turtle replied, “Experience. You ran a race of 100 steps, I ran a race of a 1000 steps. You may have the greater title, but I have the greater experience. My losses lead me to greater understandings. Sometimes winning is winning, but sometimes losing is winning.”

The Bird With No Wings

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By Geraldine Rauscher

There once was a bird who had always been told he had no wings. So the bird would walk and walk, everywhere he would only walk. One day, as the bird was walking, he bumped into a dog.

The dog stared at the bird and said “Bird, why don’t you fly?” The bird looked at the dog and said “I have no wings.” Puzzled, the dog said nothing and the bird continued to walk.

Walking past a pond, the bird bumped into a frog. The frog stared at the bird and said “Bird, why don’t you fly?” The bird looked at the frog and said “I have no wings.” Puzzled, the frog said nothing and the bird continued to walk.

Hanging in a nearby tree was a monkey. He saw the bird early on and knew he had walked a long distance. The monkey stared at the bird and said “Bird, why don’t you fly?” The bird looked at the monkey and said “I have no wings.” Puzzled, the monkey said nothing and the bird continued to walk.

The bird later bumped into an elephant. The elephant stared at the bird and said “Bird, why don’t you fly?” The bird looked at the elephant and said “I have no wings.”

The elephant quickly responded, “But you DO have wings…you see those things on your sides, those are wings.

The bird looked at its sides and lifted up its wings. “I do? No one told me.”

“The dog didn’t tell me.”

“The frog didn’t tell me.”

“The monkey didn’t tell me.”

“Well…” said the elephant, “…fly.”

The bird stretched out his wings and flew.

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