FROM DOC’S LOON FABLES 8

August 18, 2009

The Hearty Appetite

The hearty appetite roamed the forest.

“I am a bit peckish, don’t you know,” it said only because it liked to hear the sound of its own voice and not because there was anybody else at all around to respond.

The appetite downed a few boulders, a small stand of pines, and an esker skirting a lovely meadow. It paused a moment and produced a most satisfying, earthshaking, long full rumble of a belch.

“Ah, that’s the ticket,” said the hearty appetite.

It roamed to a nearby stream and drank it.

“Ah, perfection,” it sighed before thundering another belch.

As it moved to higher ground, it sang in falsetto ‘I Feel Pretty’ from West Side Story. Truth to be told, the hearty appetite experienced happiness complete singing and dancing its way across the high Sierra landscape.

Moral: Would that we all had it thus.

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