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"Oh, The places You'll Go!" Dragon was in a slump as the kids all left to go back to school. So I read to him:“All the Places You’ll Go!” by good Dr Seuss. He loved “Oh, the things you will find if you don’t stay behind!” Now, the school needed Crossing Guards. It was in the news times. So Dragon volunteered… What else could he do? After all, a Hero is a Hero- No matter what you chose to do. Now Dragon read the rules. All that they got. So Dragon marched off to be a Crossing Guard, at that… Now Dragon Knew what DR Seuss knew. “Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don’t worry, don’t stew. Just go right along, you’ll start happening too!” But traffic was too heavy, to cross the street, to the schoolyard! And yes, one car, really, did run over, his feet and his tail! And his Super Hero Cape got snagged by a car! He was drug down the street, tho not very far… But do not fear for a Dragon like ours… He never gives up… so he reached for the stars! As, yes, he remembered what Dr. Seuss had said. “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.” So Dragon took the kids and sailed up to the sky. But parents don’t like their kids to go sailing by, Or for cars to get rained on, by hot Dragon embers, from up high. And his boss didn’t think him… so very clever… by far! As Dragon was fired on his… very… very… first day so far. And Tears rained on everyone as Dragon sadly flew away! As he went off to sit on the hill, over looking a highway, further away. But Dragon so wise, remembered what Dr. Seuss said: “Oh the things you can think up if only you try!" And “It doesn’t matter what it is. What matters is what it will become.” So at that… Dragon began to look around… Life is in the journey he’d often been told, or so he thought, As he watched butterflies trying to cross the road below. Then Dragon knew Dr Seuss was: “Truer than True”, when he said: “Don’t grumble! Don’t Stew! Some critters are much-much, Oh every so much-much, So muchly much-much more unlucky than you!” So Dragon went down to the edge of the road. And he flapped his wings harder- harder than ever before. His wind threw the butterflies… higher and higher into the air. To where they could safely cross the road… to way over there. He remembered that some times you just, won’t fit in… “Because sometimes you have to be odd to be number one.” And he had to agree that: “There is no one alive who is youer than you!” Now he had a job to help butterflies go to where they would go. And he smiled as he said to the butterflies… it’s true! “Oh, the places you’ll go!” Then he realized he’d done, all that is needed, As he told them and agreed. “And will you succeed? Yes! You will indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed)" Be you bigger than big or smaller than small… You are you but with your mind, that won’t be all! And that’s the best thing of all! So remember… "To the world you may be one person; But to one person you may be the world.” So never give up and never give in… For “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” Now he realized he had become a true Crossing Guard. And during the months that the butterflies fly by… He is their Crossing Guard who sends them along. Thank you Dearly… my Dear… Dear Dr. Seuss! No one could have explained it… as perfect as you. Written 8-15-2015
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