~I have always believed in the stars, though it took me years to realise this, and I have always believed in love, though it took me years to acknowledge this~
and now ~ I only live my life by the stars and love
alrighty then, having set the tone, I can only be referring to true love now, can I
because no matter what, the stars will bring you together
and my very first Papa Hare - Resolute - learned very young that the stars will give you your soulmate, you just have to believe, in your heart,
and so....
When Resolute was still very
tiny, he was out with his mama one day, on a discovery excursion, as she took
him across the meadow and down by the edge of the forest, across the stream and
up along the side of the field, pointing out all the interesting things that
small hares should know about.
At the edge of the field they stopped for a
rest, enjoying the sunshine amongst the tall grasses. Mama dozed off in the
warmth for a few minutes, and unbeknownst to her Resolute scampered off, still
excited about seeing new things. He had hardly gone any distance when he saw a
fence and beyond the fence was a garden and in the garden was a strange shaped
thing with a small fence on it, and inside the strange shaped thing was the most
beautiful sight baby hare Resolute had ever seen in his very short life.
As he
gazed at his new discovery, the discovery gazed right back at him, and neither
of them moved a whisker.
Resolute was looking at a very pretty grey thing, with
strange long things on each side of her head. He felt his heart pounding and
his paws began to tingle, his mouth became very dry and he tried to speak but
nothing came out. All he could do was smile at her, and all she did was smile
back at him.
Then just as he was about to step forward and introduce himself,
he heard his mama bark his name, so he dashed back thru the shrubs and grasses
to her. Mama scolded him and said that he must never go off on his own again,
especially not to fences, as fences were not safe places. And with that, they
made a quick journey home.
But all Resolute could think about was the grey doe
he had seen and every time he thought about her his heart raced. As soon as he
was allowed out to explore by himself he made the long journey back across the
meadow to the forest and over the stream and thru the field, where he raced as
fast as he could to the fence. Completely forgetting mama’s wise words. He
peered thru the fence and tried to sort of remember the garden and the small
fence on the thing in the garden, but none of it looked familiar and he
couldn’t see any small fence and he couldn’t see any grey beautiful creature
gazing back at him. No matter how far he followed the fence, there was still
nothing nowhere.
He finally made his way back, tears streaming down his face,
sobbing uncontrollably, tripping over the rocks and fallen branches and
stumbling on the divots, until eventually he was home.
Mama could see from his
disheveled unkempt state that he was distraught, and within minutes he had
blurted everything out to her, and did mama know why the pretty grey thing had
no ears?
Why, ofcourse mama knew, and she explained to Resolute that what he
had seen was a people-rabbit, and she did have ears, but that they were long
and flat, not like the normal little silly meadow rabbits with the small pointy
ears.
And so every day after that Resolute would make the long round trip over
to the fence to look for his sweetheart, and every day he would return home sad
and dejected.
Well, this behaviour could not go on forever, so one day mama
gave him a small present that she had found on the edge of a picnic blanket
that very morning, in the hopes of cheering him up. It was a tiny toy fabric
rabbit with really, really long ears, and mama said that if he kept it close to
his heart, then one day the stars would bring his real rabbit to him. Oooooh!
gasped Resolute, and he hugged the little plush close to his heart, as his
heart started to race.
Now that he is all grown up he
has a baby of his own. Well, not really his own, as one day he sort of came
across an abandoned leveret as he was out and about, on his daily trips to the
fence.
He reckoned that there was no harm in checking the fence every day just
incase that beautiful rabbit came back, and besides he had started to enjoy the
excursions and got to stretch his legs. Though on this particular day he
stumbled on a very small baby, with cuts all over his fur, crying and shaking,
not far from the fence.
Resolute looked around to see if there were any mothers
near by, I mean, what on earth was he going to do with a baby, and how on earth
could he look after one? What with feeding and cleaning and educating and all
that, surely that was very complicated and only something a mother could do, so
he scanned the horizon but not a single one was to be seen.
Though the baby had
rushed over immediately to him and was now shivering and clinging onto his leg
by this stage. So he scooped the youngster up and took him home, where he gave
him a good clean and found some tender new shoots for his dinner.
And he was
even thinking about giving his little fabric hare to his new charge, but on
second thoughts he thought not. Just incase it gets torn or squashed or
dirtied. After all, that tiny hare still sleeps beside him on his pillow every night
when he dreams about his sweetheart.
Resolute is looking forward
to dozing cosily on your armchair by the French windows on that crazily
patterned rug. Lois will be right by his side! Now that he is living with his
sweetheart, after such a long time of being apart from her, they will be
inseparable. They have a lot of catching up to do since that day by the fence.
But it won’t be an awkward type of catching up, because they are soulmates and
accept each other completely. Even though Lois is a rabbit with extra long ears
and Resolute in a hare with long ears, but er, not as long as hers, and he
loves everything about her!
His mama was right because he had kept the tiny toy
rabbit close to his heart all that time and the stars did bring him his love!
So,
they would like some private time together thank you. What do you mean they can
have private time when you go to bed, that’s not very fair is it? not everyone
wants to canoodle in the dark now, do they. Sometimes it’s nice to canoodle in
the afternoon, sometimes in the morning and sometimes as they are having
dinner, that’s one of the perks of being in love.
And why do they have to wait
so long for you to go to bed, c’mon for goodness sake, surely you’ve seen thatmovie before haven’t you – it’s the one where she finds the ring box in his
scrappy old pair of trousers that she was going to throw out and as she turns
around he’s kneeling down infront of her, asking her to marry him, sigh! so
romantic
and Baby Hare Sure
One day Sure decided that he
was going to go and explore a little bit further than any of his friends had
done. He made up his mind to see what was on the other side of the meadow.
But
he didn’t tell mama and he didn’t tell any of his friends. He wanted it to be a
surprise, so that when he returned home he would let everyone know about the
wonderful things he had seen.
Anyway, that was the plan.
So when kindergarten
finished and the babies were making their way home along the edge of the wood, Sure
pretended that he had forgotten something back at school and scampered off, and
as soon as he was out of sight of his pals he veered off the path and headed
straight to the meadow.
He was pretty excited and imagined the things he would
see. As he made his way up to the edge of the meadow his head was filled with
butterflies and friendly little birds, squirrels and lots and lots of happy
insects and pretty flowers and some of those tasty herb things mama had pointed
out to him once.
But then out of nowhere he heard a very loud scary noise, and
he froze. He was rooted to the spot then suddenly, something inside him made
him start running. But he had no idea where he was running to, or what he was
running from, only that he was running. Running very, very fast, and running
away from that scary barking noise. Until he bounced off something and landed
in a heap, sprawled amongst the bushes.
He couldn’t get up, so he lay there for
a very long time, shaking, with his heart pounding wildly. But he couldn’t hear
the noise any more, so that was good. Though he didn’t know where he was. He
had darted across the meadow so fast that he was now completely lost, and what
was even scarier was that there was a fence in front of him. And mama and his
teachers had always said that fences were bad and you had to stay away from
them.
So Sure did the only thing he could do, he started to cry and sob and
wail. His fur began to matt up with all the tears falling down and his nose was
running and he could feel pains all over his body and noticed so many cuts on
his legs. He was in a bad way.
Then he saw a big shape in front of him and on
looking up there was a papa hare. Sure darted right over to him and grabbed his
front leg, not letting go, and sobbed even harder, as he was now so happy to be
safe!
Sure is looking forward to
sitting comfortably on your armchair by the French windows. Not the same chair
as papa though, because papa will be sharing his chair with his new wife Lois.
And Sure doesn’t want to be on there too, it will be far too cramped, and he
might step on an ear.
Besides he will be so happy to have his very own chair,
and he’ll be going out into the garden every day and spending time amongst your
flowers and all the little insects and the birds. He’s not too keen on your
fence though so he won’t be going near it. He hopes you understand.
Though he’s
really looking forward to all the delicious meals he’ll be having with you.
Papa has not been the best cook and sometimes he’s been really very hungry
after dinner, not because there wasn’t much on his plate, but because it tasted
rather funny. Papa said that he would be taking cooking lessons so that he
could cook for his new wife but Sure is pretty sure that the lessons won’t make
much difference at all.
It’s just that papa has floundered in quite a few of
the domestic departments, especially compared to his mama, from what he
remembers of her, way back then. She was a great cook and could sew really well
and read him bedtime stories every night, unlike papa, who had to ask one of
the birds to help him sew up that dirty little stuffed toy he still carries
around with him. Not even Sure has a toy that filthy! Infact he is well past
carrying toys around with him. I mean, aren’t toys for babies?
...and incase you were thinking that Lois was a figment of my over-active imagination? - well, here is the beautiful long-eared lady herself!!
(on that crazily-patterened rug)
and they met for the first time with no fence between them
*sigh* true love!
Lois lives in America, and as you can see, they are inseparable!
it's always a pleasure to muster up a story that has such a personal touch, and quite a few of my stories have been written in this way - can't wait to publish my first book! I'm getting really excited because I've written a few hundred stories now and every now and then when I read thru them I find myself smiling and being surprised *(humble blushes :)*
anyway, to accompany Resolute, Sure and the tiny long-eared plush was a handful of hares - donations for a rescue that Lois' mum volunteers at - Special Bunny in Seattle
I wrapped each one in it's own package, so that they have 3 lagomorphs to auction off.
thank you Tamara!
Always nice to help out and know that there is alot of love out there for the rescue rabbits. People are so kind and generous with their time and their hearts, and that is so touching.
so... with all this talk about love and soulmates and forever afters, I thought it would be nice if I made a poster of my Family Rules handmade card, so
I added some more hares wearing pink roses and splashed them around the affirmations
and printed out a couple different sizes -
A5 for your desk and
A4 for your wall
pretty?
I'm pretty happy with them! and these are the roolz I live by every day, now that I follow my heart and listen to the stars
as my little heart sleeps on the stars between my feet as I work
hey Annette! extra-long ears are over-rated eh, I rather like my small straight ones
- anyway, you just give my brow a good scratch there, slave, er sweetie...
mmmmm *puurrrrrr** *purrr**
mmmm *pu.... huh!?
where d'ya go? get back here.....
