Thursday, November 3, 2016

Hmmmm, what's this?

I would like to mail you a butterfly.  To arrive in your mailbox.  A symbol of love, freedom, and the ephemeral nature of beauty.  But, I am afraid it would not survive the heat or cold of the closed mailbox awaiting your retrieval upon delivery. And, upon you opening the mailbox to find a dead butterfly, you may misinterpret my gesture as a threat, or unkind message, or simply as a bad idea, poorly executed, that ended sadly, almost tragic.

So I won't.


And that should be the end of this story. But it isn't, because this story is a metaphor for living life...and if I don't tell you that, you'll miss it. 


Just like I did.

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