Daily Cascade

Real Robins

Prompt:
Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.
Write about this quote in your Blog entry today.

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This quote is from the Secret Garden, that my class in eighth grade--circa 1957--was to put up as a play, which didn't work because, as eager as our just-out-of-college-young English teacher was to act as a producer, nothing worked. She was a very cute teacher but she was impatient with people forgetting their lines, looking at the wrong side of the stage or person, and us giggling unnecessarily. Come to think of it, we all had more fun with the teacher's exasperation than our illusion of being in a play. At the end, the project was erased off. So much for the young teens' stage misconceptions and a sapling teacher's aspirations!

As to the quote, the robin is a symbol of wisdom, gentleness, friendship and connection to nature. The main character is a lonely child and the robin leads her to the secret garden. The secret garden is a place of healing and growth, and the kind and cheerful robin is the symbol of nature. This robin comforts the girl by helping her deal with her problems and embrace change. Then, the girl introduces her invalid cousin to the garden and both kids begin to heal in body and spirit and the garden blossoms even more.

Come to think of it, our world today is in need of a robin, too. Except, we either don't recognize the real robins that show up or we replace them with false robins.

Will the real robins rise up, please!