So last night I am sitting on the porch swing having a lovely conversation with John H. in Minneapolis. During a lull in the conversation I mumbled. “I want a monkey.” to which John H. Replied-”hugh?”
So I explained the following.
While I am looking out a Lake Michigan I admire how beautiful it is but I can’t help but think, “wouldn’t it be cool if it was salt water and there were whales, dolphins and sharks?” I do not think this while I am swimming in it. I try not to think of sharks while I am swimming, even in fresh water and swimming pools.
When I look at the birds in my yard-finches, chickadees, cardinals, robins, etc, I think, “Wouldn’t it be cool if there were parrots in my yard?” One time last year there WERE parrots in my yard! I was up really early and looked out the kitchen window to see two big, green Monk Parrots at the feeder. They must have been refugees from the Hyde Park flock.
When I am sitting on my porch swing at night looking up at the trees I can’t help but think, “wouldn’t it be cool if there were monkeys in the tree?”
When we were in Brazil, John and I spent a whole afternoon hand feeding monkeys. I fed sooooo many monkeys for sooooo long that I got bored. Who would have ever thought that I would get sick of feeding monkeys?
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