Squirrel-Happy

Squirrels make me happy. I find it fun to stop every now and then to watch them for a moment. For a creature that eats inanimate objects, they sure capture those morsels in the most animated ways. A squirrel seems to sneak up on his food as though he’s afraid the nut is going to run away if it sees him coming.

To a squirrel, if a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing dramatically. Squirrels don’t go from place to place, they don’t run from place to place, they don’t even dart from place to place. Even darting implies taking the shortest distance between two points and doing so with purpose and efficiency and, perhaps, secrecy. Those things aren’t for the squirrel, no siree! The squirrel leaps and bounces from place to place as flamboyantly as possible. He often spirals his way up a tree instead of taking the direct route and skitters across the road only centimeters from deadly tire tread. He’s just asking to be noticed!

Why all the needless energy and effort? Maybe to make us smile and remember that we don’t have to take life totally seriously: it’s ok to enjoy what we do and how we do it. Maybe to make God smile at His creation even when we are all too busy to notice it!

I smell like a guy!

Paul (my 17-yr-old cousin) and I decided that we need to get up early and go jogging in the mornings; so this morning was our first! Wow! it was hard to get my eyes to open so early (pretty sad considering that I used to arrive at school last year at the time I got up this morning!). But it felt good to be up and awake once I finally was!
We wear our Coast Guard PT shirts when we go running sometimes, and the other night Paul accidentally put on my medium shirt after his shower rather than his large one. He made the trade when he realized the mistake, but the damage had already been done: my shirt was clean but it smelled like Paul's Axe brand deodorant. So this morning I smell like a guy. I think I'll go take a shower =)