The Snail That Woke Up With a Challenge

This morning I woke up and thought about all the gun violence in America and how the politicians impede the idea of changing the laws and act like a snail that ate too much yellow fungi before going to sleep for the night. And, after hearing the morning news about Orlando, I started to worry about the safety of my family and friends and my neighbors and the old lady I saw squeezing oranges in the supermarket. So I decided to calm my thinking and pretend I was a squirrel that was enthusiastic about digging for snails in a carefully manicured lawn. Then I thought about the foxes and coyotes and weasels that would like to bite hard on my skin and began to wonder how I’d keep the fleas and ticks from infecting my hide. And, after that momentary wild animal thinking I began to fantasize about changing the political narration around gun control as a human and asked the Ground Squirrels and the Tree Squirrels to each take a stand on banning assault weapons, which is when the Land Snail woke up with a new challenge and spoke about adding new legislation to the mix so he couldn’t legally be eaten by a squirrel.