This is Fruitycake The Raccoon. Just a reminder that I’m not a real raccoon, I’m a dog. A dog that loves trash and getting into trash.
Today, I tell you the story of the uncommon, strutting green bean. A green bean, or many green beans is not what I like to find in my dinner bowl.
Green beans, to me, are like crunchy sticks that are not sticks, but taste like sticks, and masquerade as food.
When they are in my dinner bowl, even chopped up to fool me, I know that they are there. Unless they are the uncommon, strutting green bean.
The story of the uncommon, strutting green bean starts off at our little house in the woods in this Italy place.
The day started off with buckets of rain that fell from the sky all at once. The rain fell so fast and so hard that the waterfall could not hold it all. And it overflowed into the creek and it slid down the mountain carrying rocks and even trees with it.
I didn’t get too close and I stayed inside our little house. But Boy Person had to get the water to wash our dishes and clothes from the waterfall. He was careful not to slip and slide down the waterfall like the rocks and the trees.
When the rain did stop, the persons went outside. There was still noises from mountain of things falling and crashing. But the little tomatoes and the squash and the melons were all still in their places. When along came the uncommon, strutting green bean.
When it rains, I get nervous and my stomach makes noises. But not for the green beans. I looked at the uncommon, strutting green bean. He was thin and fragile. He was wet and careful. The persons said the books call him the common walking stick. Common?
Wonderfully made he was.
A green bean I can like who keeps walking away from my dinner bowl. A green bean who walks with purpose and with a purpose. A green bean who is more strong than most persons. He weathered the storm and keep walking.
No one is common. Just because there are many animals and persons and bugs and plants, the number of all of us doesn’t make us common. No, being uncommon is a superpower to all of us.
There is no one like you and no one like me. The uncommon, strutting green bean is as astounding and astonishing as you and me. Do you see?
The uncommon, strutting green bean
Walked slow it seemed
But he walked with a smile
He walked without denial.
He knew his purpose
No matter if anyone saw
He knew his place
Was to be the best uncommon, strutting green bean of all.
–Fruitycake
There is nothing more important and necessary than our health. As Girl Person tries to get well, we simply ask for your patience and encouragement.
The Fruitycake Fund for his food and treats here
The Necessities Fund for healthcare and treatment
September Blog Fund (needed to cover internet, cell service, time and equipment)
A dream can only be as big as those that believe in it. We have such a wonderful and grand 2 Traveling Dogs family. We’ve been together with you since 2011 giving a voice and purpose to animals and the ones who do the hard work like rescues and shelters.
