This morning, while working in the yard with Cora and Olivia I was given a series of little gifts by Cora. For about thirty minutes Cora and Olivia were playing in the “Forest of Spookiness” as was I when I could be pulled away from my chores. During one of my visits to the forest, and while feeding the koala bears, I was given a single green leaf and told, “This key opens the House of Happiness.” I thanked her and asked her where I could find the House of Happiness. She looked away with a “hmmm”.
A few moments later, Cora found another leaf, handed it to me with the words, “This shall lead you to the house of happiness.” All of this was happening as a side-plot to the main play-story of feeding the koala bears who lived with her in the Forest of Spookiness.
A few moments later Cora handed me another green leaf with this explanation: “When you are going to the house of happiness there are monsters along the way. This will protect you from the monsters.” And last, a few minutes later, but perhaps most importantly, Cora informed me that, “The “House of Happiness is actually in the Forest of Spookiness.” So I had been there all along, just not realizing it.
I have no idea where all of this came from, but at moments I felt like I was be given the answer to the meaning of life by a 200-year-old philosopher.
