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So sorry for your loss, Be strong and carry on for her in many ways she would have loved you to.
DRAGONFLY STORY
Down below the surface of a quiet pond lived a little colony of waterbugs. They were a happy colony, living far away from the sun. For many months they were very busy, scurrying over the soft mud on the bottom of the pond. They did not notice that every once in a while one of their colony seemed to lose interest in going about with its friends. Clinging to the stem of a pond lily, it gradually moved out of sight and was seen no more.
"Look!" said one of the waterbugs to another, "one of our colony is climbing up the lily stalk. Where do you think she is going!" Up, up, up it slowly went, even as they watched, the waterbug disappeared from sight. Its friends waited and waited but it did not return. "That's funny!" said one waterbug to another. "Wasn't she happy here?" wondered a third. No one had an answer. They were greatly puzzled. Finally one of the waterbugs gathered its friends together. "I have an idea. The next one of us who climbs up the lily stalk must promise to come back and tell us where she went and why." "We promise" they said solemnly.
One spring day not long after, the very waterbug who suggested the plan found herself climbing up the lily stalk. Up, up, up she went. Before she knew what was happening, she had broken through the surface of water and fallen into the broad and free lily pad above. When she awoke, she looked about with surprise. She could not believe what she saw! A startling change had come over her old body! Her movement revealed four silver wings and a long tail. Even as she struggled, she felt an impulse to move her wings.
The warmth of the sun soon dried the moisture from her new body. She moved her wings again and suddenly found herself above the water. She had become a dragonfly and had landed happily on a lily pad to rest. Then it was that she chanced to look below to the bottom of the pond. Why, she was right above her old friends, the waterbugs! There they were scurrying around, just as she had been doing sometime before. The dragonfly remembered his promise.
Without thinking, the dragonfly darted down. Suddenly, she hit the surface of the water and bounced away. Now that she was a dragonfly, she could no longer go into the water. "I can't return!" she said in dismay. "At least I tried. But I can't keep my promise. Even if I could go back, not one of the waterbugs would know my new body. I guess I will just have to wait until they become dragonflies too. Then the dragonfly winged off happily into the new world of sun and air.
So sorry for your loss, Be strong and carry on for her in many ways she would have loved you to.
DRAGONFLY STORY
Down below the surface of a quiet pond lived a little colony of waterbugs. They were a happy colony, living far away from the sun. For many months they were very busy, scurrying over the soft mud on the bottom of the pond. They did not notice that every once in a while one of their colony seemed to lose interest in going about with its friends. Clinging to the stem of a pond lily, it gradually moved out of sight and was seen no more.
"Look!" said one of the waterbugs to another, "one of our colony is climbing up the lily stalk. Where do you think she is going!" Up, up, up it slowly went, even as they watched, the waterbug disappeared from sight. Its friends waited and waited but it did not return. "That's funny!" said one waterbug to another. "Wasn't she happy here?" wondered a third. No one had an answer. They were greatly puzzled. Finally one of the waterbugs gathered its friends together. "I have an idea. The next one of us who climbs up the lily stalk must promise to come back and tell us where she went and why." "We promise" they said solemnly.
One spring day not long after, the very waterbug who suggested the plan found herself climbing up the lily stalk. Up, up, up she went. Before she knew what was happening, she had broken through the surface of water and fallen into the broad and free lily pad above. When she awoke, she looked about with surprise. She could not believe what she saw! A startling change had come over her old body! Her movement revealed four silver wings and a long tail. Even as she struggled, she felt an impulse to move her wings.
The warmth of the sun soon dried the moisture from her new body. She moved her wings again and suddenly found herself above the water. She had become a dragonfly and had landed happily on a lily pad to rest. Then it was that she chanced to look below to the bottom of the pond. Why, she was right above her old friends, the waterbugs! There they were scurrying around, just as she had been doing sometime before. The dragonfly remembered his promise.
Without thinking, the dragonfly darted down. Suddenly, she hit the surface of the water and bounced away. Now that she was a dragonfly, she could no longer go into the water. "I can't return!" she said in dismay. "At least I tried. But I can't keep my promise. Even if I could go back, not one of the waterbugs would know my new body. I guess I will just have to wait until they become dragonflies too. Then the dragonfly winged off happily into the new world of sun and air.
