A Few Thoughts on Relationships, Good/Bad Inventions, Part 4 of “The Knight That Cried”
Hi folks,
I have been thinking a lot about relationships lately. It seems to me as if there are so many different kinds. Maybe an interesting salutation to try would be “Hi how are your relationships ?” intead of the worn out, obsolete — “How are you?” to which you wil probably get the standard reply –”fine” — whether you are or not — because you know they don’t really care anyway.
Can you imagine how it would even change the appearance of the street — where you would see people actually sharing their answers? They might even be talking in groups.
A typical answer to the new salutation might be :Well my wife and I seem to be so busy right now that I find myself relaxing on the way home by stopping for a beer.” And so on. Hey let’s try and comment. Now you might have to listen to somebody and next time I ‘d like to share some ideas re:
Empathy .
Bad invention? Can everybody master the art of opening a 2 litre box of milk by pushing back the top of the box? So far, if I had a cat he would have had 300 litres of milk to lick off the floor. So what is the trick????
Now part 4 of my little story. It would be great f you read it to your kids.
The Knight That Cried
Part 4There was also some incredible armour for Starfire and himself. He didn’t have to wonder for long where it had all come from as Donna rode up on the most beautiful horse he had ever seen. Now of course Starfire was right there to greet them both. There was no question about Starfire’s
attention. He may have been hurt but right now he nuzzled her horse and did not seem any the worse for wear. They were just like a couple of kids as they went galloping at full speed up and down the meadow.Donna asked if it was okay to stay for a little while since the horses were having so much fun. Of course, said Sr. Knight and after he thought now wait a moment he never had company and yet it took only a second for him to say yes. She sat on the grass and began to ask all kinds of questions about his past. Did he have any royalty in his family, had he ever married, did he have any kids, had he ever lived in any kind of palace. All his answers were no.
Everybody had been very glad to see her when she showed up but her Dad and Mom had passed away while she was gone and she had been the only child. “I see there is a tournament next Tuesday at 3. Are you going to be in it? If you are I will be sure to go.”
“Sure.” he said so fast that he had not even thought about it. He’d never even been to one. He wouldn’t even know what to do.
“That’s great then I’ll see you fight.”
“Fight?” he thought “What now?”
Poor sir knight he had no idea what was happening to him. They both sat in silence and watched their two horses. it seemed so nice with the warm sun shining on her golden hair and then she asked him if he would walk her back toward the town. He got up and they started to walk. Remember that although our Knight had rescued lots of people he had always made a point of leaving shortly after. So he had traveled far and wide but always with a purpose. To fight for no purpose was quite strange for him. He had managed to live very well on all the rewards. He was not a well read Knight.
They started to walk across the meadow where the two horses were having a great time. Then he felt Donna hold his hand in hers and it felt so nice he covered hers in a firm grasp with a hand that was twice the size of hers. Eventually the meadow gave way to the woods and she stopped, released his hand and called her horse. They both came at a full gallop. He helped her up on to her horse and she was gone. Sir Knight thought that Starfire would be exhausted but he looked at Sir Knight and shook his head as if to say hang on. He took off and ran faster than Sir Knight had ever known. So two very happy companions neither of them knowing what was happening slept content that something awful nice was happening.
Our Knight woke up in his large tent with quite a start. He had heard some rustling outside. He quickly pulled on some pants and cautiously opened the flap of his tent. There was Donna frying up some gorgeous breakfast and of course Starfire was up and cavorting in the meadow with his new playmate. Both Starfire and the Extraordinary Knight you might say had never had a holiday and this was really different for both of them to have this time.
Before Donna knew he was up Our Knight stood at the tent opening and listened to her singing. It was quite soft and beautiful. He looked around and knew he was in the right place and everything was as it should be but how come it all seemed so new and colors were brighter, the
sky bluer, the grass greener. Then Starfire saw him and he came full speed with the tail straight out and his girlfriend close behind. He came right up to Sir Knight and as he stroked the huge head the horse licked him full in the face. But he was soon gone again. Donna now had him sit on a log and he ate the biggest and tastiest breakfast he ever had.”I came over early because I have so much to do, she said. But I want you to be strong and healthy for the tournament. You are twice as strong as anybody else in it. I registered you under the title “Extraordinary Knight. I hope that is okay.” “That’s fine “. It starts today but you are not on till tomorrow at 9. I’ll see you then. Then she called over her horse and left with Starfire close behind until the woods and then he came again full speed back to the camp and was snorting like a bull.
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June 22nd, 2009 at 4:48 pm
After reading your post I did a bit of research and was surprised to find little in the way of assistive devices for opening milk cartons, mostly dead links for discontinued widgets (below). I suppose the best course then would be to switch to milk jugs, or bags.
http://www.abledata.com/abledata.cfm?pageid=19327&top=11557&productid=170524&trail=0&discontinued=0