I have a very short bucket list. One thing I've always wanted to try is to make cording out of day lily leaves. In Florida, I made some out of palm fibre, inspired by a display at the Natural History Museum in Gainesville. Native Americans used the palm cording as fishing lines.
Yesterday, I noticed that a lot of the day lily leaves are turning brown, probably because of the droughty conditions in the gardens. Time to knock that item off the bucket list. I gave myself the gift of time around the pond as I began the first cord. As I sat there, figuring out how to make the cord, a frog swam right towards me. It looked like it wanted to chat. Then, it jumped on the edge of the pond and just sat there looking at me for 15 minutes.
As we were enjoying each other's company, I realized that my leaves needed to be more pliable. I excused myself, left the frog sitting at the pond's edge, and got a basin of water from the house. When I returned, I almost dropped the basin of water.
This is what I saw!!!!
It was sitting in my chair! I carefully walked around the other side of the pond and sat down next to it. I think it might have been wanting me to see its beautiful colours. Or, maybe it wants a cord to go skipping around the pond.
This reads a lot like a kids' story and it felt like a kids's story too. We enjoyed each other's company for an hour or so and I ended up with two decent cords.
Who knows? Maybe tomorrow the frog will be sitting on my chair making day lily leaf chords. For its friends. To go skipping around the pond.
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.”
Albert Einstein
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