Hey to everyone reading this.  I hope your kids at home, (both grown or growing)...enjoyed the poem about a grasshopper as much as my children and I enjoyed it....

   This next entry is a timeless tale from Native Americans...It weaves a tale of creation around a fun, and heartwarming story.  There are morals in this story, as in most literature for children!  Featured are teamwork, communication, and appreciation of beauty.  These simple pleasures can be difficult to find as we strive for whatever it is our lives demand.  This story can be a good reminder of the benefits of slowing down to smell the roses, so to speak......


I am sharing this with you today from the website..InformZoo.com......

Long, long ago, when the Earth was new, God looked down on his creation and was very happy. The world was beautiful and the people were happy.

But as time passed, the people began to age and die and this brought sorrow to the world, and so God began to think that there was something missing. And so one day he decided to create something new.

God came to the Earth and began to gather the colors of his creation into a sack. From the sky he took some blue; from the trees he took some green; from the Sun he took some yellow; from the sunset he took red, orange and purple; from the little children he took the white of their smiles and the brown of their eyes. All these colors he gathered into his sack.

Then as an afterthought he took the songs from the birds and put them in the sack as well. And he shook the sack to mix all these things well. Then he came to the people to give them his new creation.

And so it was that the people gathered around God to see this new creation. Then God opened the sack and released thousands of butterflies into the air. And the people were pleased, and the children danced and sang with the butterflies dancing and singing around them. And happiness returned to the world.

But not all of creation was happy. The birds came to God to ask him why he had taken their song. "Great God," the birds' spokesman said, "our song was what set us apart from all of creation. It is not right that you should take this from us for the butterflies”. God pondered his words and decided that he was right.

God put forth his hand once more and retrieved the songs of the birds from the butterflies. So butterflies are the most beautiful creatures God has created, yet they are silent.

This is our retelling of a Native American folktale