Nonetheless, it rings true. Yes, I know that the moments in life which bring us the greatest joy are the
intangible ones -- a child's smile, a baby's laugh, the company of loved ones. Those are the things that
sustain us, that give our lives focus and purpose. It's just that I've decided that finding comfort and
happiness in the tangible stuff is okay, too.
Reading this made me think of the "tangible stuff" that I brought home with assistance from Mr. Croc last Saturday. We were at a lake where there was a dam with a great heap of "drift" falling over one side of it. I climbed down into the debris and pulled out a very long piece of weathered cedar driftwood... a whole trunk off of a tree. When I started hauling it up the side of the dam, Mr. Croc shook his head and said, "I don't think that will fit in the van..." I suppose there must have been something rather dejected about the way I set the driftwood down on top of the concrete dam because, a minute later, Mr. Croc started folding down the back seats of the van and then managed to fit the whole tree trunk in, even though we had to drive home with a big section of root sticking up between the front seats, resting on the dashboard. Seems to me that a tree trunk has to be worth at least 2 EasyBake ovens, don't you think??
-croc |
