Spanky goes to the movies

One night, my family asked if I wanted to go to the movies. They told me it was a story, like on TV, but on a huge screen, with big speakers, and there was popcorn and coke. I said I'd go!

The movie theater was huge!  And there were bunches of different ones all in the same building! It wasn't as big as Yosemite, but it seemed close.

We were going to see The Fault In Our Stars. Now, I'm a little monkey, but I think stars are awesome. If you go out on a really dark night, you can see bazillions of them. There are more than I can even count! I don't really see what the fault in them is. But I guessed the movie would tell me. 

Oh my, was there popcorn and coke! I guess in a ginormous building, there has to be ginormous popcorn and ginormous drinks. And the liquid gold they put on the popcorn was amazing!

Then, there were previews. Previews are lots of parts of stories. I want to see a whole story, so I thought they were kinda long and frustrating. I wanted to see the movie!!

Then it started. It was about a girl and a boy. They both had cancer, and went to a support group. They got to be really close, and really talked about what it means to be alive, and to love. We got to see some of what it was like for their moms and dads and friends. 

I think it would be hard to love someone who you know is going to die. But I guess we are all going to die someday... There's just something about this cancer business. We go into this world, assuming that everyone gets to be healthy until a ripe old age, and then after living a full life, will drift off into a permanent sleep. Just the fact that we can't live forever ought to make us treasure the moments we do have. Yet so often, we take for granted the years we will have, the people in our lives, and our bodies! I'm a monkey who hasn't really gotten hurt yet, but I've seen enough that I don't want to!

I guess the point is that we have very little  and a lot of choice in what comes our way. The universe is huge and there are infinite possibilities... I could have been an elephant or a hedgehog or a fish, but I  a monkey. That decided some things for me. But what is choose to do with my monkey body, how I spend my time, who I choose to care about, what risks I take, those choices are up to what the universe places in my path, and what I choose to see. 

"The real heroes aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people noticing things, paying attention. The guy who invented smallpox didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox."

Sometimes I think I miss things. I don't notice when people are happy or sad, nice or mean. I'm just thinking about motorcycles and adventures and making mail and being famous. It's a lot of thoughts for a monkey brain. But I'm going to try. I want to be a monkey who not only does things, but notices things, and shares them with people I love.

I'm glad I saw this movie and thought about love and life and the stars, and ate the giant popcorn and spent time with my family. I hope the next adventure makes me think so much!

A Day at the Park!

One day, my mommy took me to the park. I looked around and saw so many things! There were lots of dogs, and they would smell posts, just like Roxy said, like they were reading a story. And they would smell each other's bottoms!

In the park, there was a swing! Wheeee!

Swinging is like flying way up in the trees! After swinging, I ran across a bridge. 

The bridge bounced up and down and up and down! 

Then I found a tree to play in. It was knotted and bumpy. I love old gnarled trees... They are easy to climb and so much fun!

Later, I went to I've cream! I've cream is magical. It's like pie, only colder.

Mommy had peanut butter ice cream. I thought that was silly; I thought peanut butter was for sandwiches! Until I tried it. Then I knew that peanut butter was for ice cream.

Daddy and Lissy had ice cream cones! They made one just my size!

This was Lissy's. It had decadent chocolate ice cream in it. 

I'm still thinking about how to be famous. I talked to my mommy about it, and she says most people become famous because they do something. Except the Kardashians. Mommy can't figure out why they are famous. I don't know what a Kardashians is... Maybe they are famous because they are cars that run with legs?

Anyway, I'm back to the drawing board on that one.

Speaking of drawing, Mommy helped me make mail!

I wrote to Lissy and Casi.  Then we put it in a mail box!

It was really fun! Send me your address if you want mail. I want to make mail all the time!

Bye!