Running - a short story by Tucker Bear.
Some days I like to take lots of naps. It’s like my batteries just need to be recharged and I can’t keep my eyes open. Other days I like snuggles. Most mornings I want to cuddle in the blankies with mama and then sometimes when she gets up and makes her tea I just wanna curl up in her lap because I’m not ready to be out of bed yet. I’m a big fan of naps and snuggles. But more than that my most favoritist thing in the whole wide world… is RUNNING. I don’t know how to explain it, but sometimes when my batteries get charged really really good it’s like I get all zoomie inside and I just have to run and run. If I’m in the house I find something great to run circles around, mostly on the rug because the slickery floor makes it hard to go zoomie fast (I have to go fast, fast is the best part!). My favorite tho is when I get to run in the big yard outside. In the evenings after the sisters go to bed and I don’t have to share the pasture with anyone, mama takes my frisbee and we go out to the grass and I RUN. Up the hill and then back down, chasing the frisbee, chasing the birds, chasing the wind. I love to run. There is this one spot in the pasture where the water runs down and makes a little groove and when mama throws the frisbee over it I run and jump. I’m a great jumper and I love the way the wind blows while I soar higher and higher across the dip and then just when I think my feet will never touch the ground again and I’m gonna fly right up into the sky with the birds , the ground comes up on the other side and catches me so I can keep on running. My favorite part about running tho is the part where the world just melts away while I do it. Do you have something like that? Mama says her thing that does that is reading a good book . She can just read for hours and not think about anything else and that’s how I feel when I’m running. Nothing else matters - not the ‘rona or the squeaky toy I ate or the kitty I’m not allowed to chase - it all goes away and all that’s left is the freedom of flying and the feel of the grass and the frisbee mama throws across the field. I think everyone should have a thing like running. Something they look forward to doing, that makes them feel free, that helps them get away from all the other things the world wants them to look at. So tell me, what’s your “running”? Maybe I’ll try it next! Happy Tucker Tuesday! Tucker Bear PS - Mama says it’s a good thing I like to run because in October we’re going to do something fun that lets me do running and jumping and I don’t know what “a jility” is but I can’t wait to try it!
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AuthorTucker (pomeranian) is an author of marginal famou'nicity. Catch his Tucker Tuesday farm pupdates here and on the Toby Way Farm facebook page. Archives
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