Family Tree
Monday, January 1st, 2007When you read the following fable you must first put yourself in a fantasy imagination mood and be sure you have sprinkled yourself with a heavy dose of “sense of humor” seasoning. It was created using information received from e-mails some of the subject critters submitted. Depending on how the story is received, there is a slight possibility that future literary dialogue of this subject matter may be expounded upon. Or not.
God made some pretty interesting sights in addtion to creating some curious animals and other living creatures here on earth. Almost as curious is the outcome of what could have happened if each of our individual interests in becoming certain other living creatures would have occurred.
A Rufous Hummingbird (The Ole Geezer) became infatuated with a graceful, elegant, colorful, gentle, observant, long tongued Giraffe (The Geezeress). Don’t ask me how, but they became matrimonially involved and became parents to three children. A son, who is a loungingly, designative, kingly, wise male Lion (BJ); a daughter, who is a soaring and high flying, majestic female Eagle (Mitch); and a second son, who is a paternally minded, non-insomniac, tropical weather inclined, Methuselahistic Sea Turtle (CJ).
Can’t ya just picture it. A brightly colored humming bird flittering to and fro, upward, back and forth, from side to side, sometimes just hovering and shoutin’ commands through his long beak to his family, who are strugglin’ desperately to keep up with him. First in line is the elegant, beautiful soft eyed female giraffe, with one eye on her bird brained husband and nervously, yet frantically trying to understand where he is takin’ them and why, while keepin’ the other eye on her pride (?), flock (?), or colony (?) of three children, BJ the Lion, Mitch the Eagle and CJ the Sea Turtle that are meanderin’, flyin’ and/or crawlin’ behind her. I don’t think there had ever been such a menagerie anywhere, anytime, anyplace; not even when Noah was filling the Ark with animals a long time ago. But, just wait, it may get better as time marches on.
Somehow this very unique family got thru many of life’s trials and tribulations. Oh sure they had their ups and downs. I mean who wouldn’t with an eighteen foot high mother who ate nothing but green stuff and a bird brained father who ate nothing but sweets and even though he was only two inches tall still had a tongue almost as long as his wife’s. How do you cope with life when you have two sons who enjoy sleepin’ a good part of the day and a high flyin’ daughter that probably fell asleep in the sky ’cause she enjoyed soaring through the thermal air so much, Also, when all three young’uns are pretty much carnivorous and the parents ain’t………Yikes!!!
Well, they all made it down life’s pathway for a good many years. And along the way all three young’uns ended up with unique families of their own.
BJ, the Lion was mated with a little, long haired, furry, bedroom eyed, sleepy lookin’ house feline (Lizzy the Cat), which ain’t toooo bad of a combination until you see what kind of children they had. Can you imagine a lion and a little kitty cat having a cold watered, formal lookin’, fast swimmin’, fish eatin’, non flyin’ type bird for a daughter (Eme the Penguin). When she stays out of the water too long and the weather gets warm she sometimes turns into a high soaring eagle. The unique feline couple also have a son that’s a snarlin’, vicious, “mailman and cat chasin’” canine who plays basketball and soccer (’Topher the Dog). Try feedin’ that family at a sushi bar without scarrin’ the oppo outa’ the rest of the customers.
Mitch’ the Eagle (ess) became paired up with a macho, non-gregarious, very aromatic, two-tone color, male feline (GW the Skunk). It is hard to imagine that such an unusual Montana couple could have two sons. One is a super strong, yet very agile, spotted male feline (RJ the Jaguar), who can also turn into a vicious, powerful shark if he dives into the ocean. The second son is a binocular eyed, very strong, high flyin’, carnivorous fowl (Willy the Eagle). If you see them comin’ toward you in a boat, you’ll certainly give them a second look.
CJ the Sea Turtle interestingly but not surprising to anyone, hooked up with a bikini clad, very social yet phantom type sea creature that is able to disappear quickly if she wants to get away from everyone else (Ter’rell the Turtle). Since they’re “mostly live in water” type parents, it’s hard to imagine how they can adequately keep tabs of their off spring, who are as different as night and day. For a daughter they have a very melodious mewin’, beautifully dressed, pony tailed female feline (Gweners the Kitty Cat) and they have a son, who is a trompin’, stompin’, BBBBBBBBBBBrilliant, ELLLLLLL-E-PHANT singin’, trunk swingin’ mammal (BoJam the Elephant). As you can imagine, all other action stops when they hit Disney Land!!!!!
ALL the families listed above went to Hawaii one time for a special get-to-gether, celebratin’ a 50th annie verse erry. WOW. It is amazing to see how such a different menagerie of animals can eat, sleep, laugh and play so well together. It might be ’cause three newly formed human bein’s supervised and kept tabs on them. There was Jag, who was in charge of finding food for everyone; Charlie, who was in charge of entertainment; and Kinzie, who was the scout and pathfinder. Of course Charlie and Kinzie also had to keep an eye on Jag to make sure he didn’t eat all the food he found for everyone else. These three new human bein’s probably made sure all the animals knew how to get to the right place in Hawaii. Some swam all the way; some flew; some hitch hiked and I think a few might have used a “magic carpet”, ’cause I don’t know of any other way they could have gotten there.
They had a marvelous time together and Hawaii will never be the same again since they all left and went back to their individual homes. The memories created there will last forever. Especially for the giraffe and hummingbird.
Papa (Jim Diede)
P.S. If you recognize yourself and you think you should have a different name, tell me and the new
names will be considered. If, in the future, additional stories are developed about this subject matter. 