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Why Do Elephants Have Flat Feet?By Dian & Ken Stanley
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When we are children, a joke or riddle told on a playground becomes more fun with each telling. We have a limitless capacity to remember all the riddles and jokes told by friends or that favorite aunt or uncle. We canāt wait to share with our friends or if we are very lucky, a parent or adult our latest new piece of information.
We tell it over and over to our friends or anyone else that will listen. It is not just a joke or riddle we are telling but some secret knowledge. We are so eager to share this new found knowledge that elicits that smile or better yet a laugh. If itās a riddle being told, itās that knowing nod from our friends that we imparted that unknown piece of insight into the workings of the world. We know itās only a riddle or a joke but what if itās really based on fact. Then we grow up and our sense of wonder gives way to all those important grown up things. We clutter our minds with jobs, taxes, schedules and deadlines that no one cares about. Although somewhere, somehow there is always that small corner of your mind that remembers at least one joke heard many years ago as a child. As adults you must concentrate very hard to move through the clutter to remember that joke or riddle. However, if we are very lucky it will still makes us smile or wish that it were really true. Somewhere for us, in the early light of day in a very quite place in the jungle, elephants still climb and jump from very tall trees. My husband, Ken and I have been married for 31 years and our long time dream has been to collaborate on a piece of art. The Proverbial Challenge was our opportunity to try out that dream. Iām happy to say we are still married and elephants still have flat feet. |