[golux]

What outlandish beings are these? Erect as men, but hardly as symmetrical, they stand all round the rock like sculptured caryatides, supporting the next range of eaves above. Their bodies are grotesquely misshapen, their bills short, their feet seemingly legless; while the members at their sides are neither fin, wing, nor arm. And truly neither fish, flesh, nor fowl is the penguin; as an edible, pertaining neither to Carnival nor Lent; without exception the most ambiguous and least lovely creature yet discovered by man. Though dabbling in all three elements, and indeed possessing some rudimental claims to all, the penguin is at home in none. On land it stumps; afloat it sculls; in the air it flops. As if ashamed of her failure, Nature keeps this ungainly child hidden away at the ends of the earth, in the Straits of Magellan, and on the abased sea-story of Rodondo.

[hoe_cake]

This is very motivationa. and hopeful. My daughter was in a body cast and wheelchair in kindergarten. Her classmates learned that she was ok, even if her appearance wasn’t normal. If fact, because the cafetaria was downstairs, my daughter ate in the classroom and classmates were eager to sit with her and keep her company.

[Carriage Hill]

Good story.

[BBB333]

Nice story.

Have had a dog or two do that shuffle before...