| Yes! It was easy to get to 5 minutes because I have 3 kids. Here's my five minute story: --- Once there was a boy. A very young boy. He never really had a family. Or even a hope. Once he met a rabbit in the woods. But this wasn't just any rabbit. This rabbit had a hope. He had a family. He had the things the boy lacked. This struck the boy as strange. Why should this rabbit have the things that he so longed for? Why should there be boys in the world like himself that lacked family? Lacked hope? The rabbit found the boy strange as well. He decided, without any particular thought, to bring the boy home to his warren. The day was cool. It was fall and the leaves had just begun to depart their branches. The boy strolled idly behind the rabbit, not quite wanting to follow, not quite wanting to lose the rabbit in the ins and outs of bush and trunk. They arrived presently at the base of a very large tree. The boy stopped, several feet shy of the tangle of roots. The rabbit looked up at him and gave him a slight nod, as if sensing the tension in the boy's shoulders, his reticence, his disbelief. The rabbit gestured to the roots. Through the tangle, the boy detected a slit of light emerging and caught the whiff of something nice. Was that tea? |