today was a run-in-the-grass-barefoot day. it was so gloriously beautiful, so here on bju campus, i did just that. i had an excuse. someone threw my shoes in the grass, but nonetheless, i got to run in the grass barefoot.
but that is not the exciting part about my day.
it happened on the way to the art building. i was thinking nymph/dryad thoughts and was very close to nature when i saw a beautifully flowering tree. i thought to myself, "self, i must pick a flower and enjoy it for a while." so i did. i picked (contrary to the rule book, i am ashamed to say...) a flower. white petals with purple in the center. it was so fragrant. i was enjoying the moment so much! then i got the idea, "i should put this in my hair and look like a flowering bush myself!" so i did. blissfully i walked along stopping to watch a squirrel (which are very prolific on this campus), looked at some bushes, gazed at the sky. a total nature moment.
well what happened next really got me close to nature. i felt this sting on my ear. yup. a red stinging ant had taken up residence in MY flower and lodged a complaint with my ear. i guess you can say he didn't like being uprooted from his family that lived in the rest of the bush.
so now my ear is throbbing and is red.
moral of the story, don't pick flowers on bju campus. they plant red, stinging ants to punish you if you do.
Posted by hill at March 3, 2004 06:24 PMAll those pastoral poems I read in my lit classes are a buncha crock. So's all that Wordsworth I used to like to read. All Nature does is bite you.
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