Not Yellow Homer Stuff

2024.07.24

Good morning that wonderful way.

Stars and stripes and yipes! Yipes! Yipes!

Spells and magic. What's a witch's prayer have to do with grammar?

It was always about words and doing words.

Magic.

If you know a person's name, Merlin will tell you, you have power over them.

Every name is the title of that person's story.

It helps to know the show's name before you go searching for it on Netflix.

I wonder what genre you're in?

Probably fantasy fiction for me.

Supernatural drama or docudrama depending on how close you are to me.

Got to add fantasy to anything with a dragon in it.

The academic world ought to recognize fantasy under the umbrella, at least possible umbrella, of just plain ole' Literature.

Not many fantastical books make it.

Though, every story is fantastical in nature, always a feat of the imagination.

There's Lord of the Rings.

There's Alice stomping around Wonderland.

There's all of Aesop's stuff.

And Narnia.

And Greek not yellow Homer's stuff.

It's a different path to the moral lesson, but still the moral message.

It's impossible to tell a story without morality showing.

Every tale is didactic, every story a remembrance of the moral nature of the universe.

And they're comforts we all seek.

They let us remember we're not alone.

That life has a common thread gone unsaid.

That how we treat all things matters.

That being kind is not for cute Hallmark cards and grade school recess crowd-management, but the way the world works best.

The best times at recess are when all the students are respectful of all the students.

The best successes of a corporation happen when everyone plays nice and shares the work.

In all the best families, everyone shares the work.

And, when it's kept kind, the work becomes something to look forward to.

And the world loves positive growth, looks for it to feed on.

Enthusiasm makes the world go 'round.

Enthusiasm makes the magic.