The Girl and the Flamingo
For Pamela Once upon a time there lived a little girl who loved to dance. She lived in a village beside a tropical rain forest. Each morning just after the sunrise and before it was time to do her chores, she walked into the deep green forest. She walked until she came to a big circle field shimmering in the golden rays of the early morning sun. In the middle of the field she stood silently with her eyes closed and her arms above her head. For a minute all was still. And then she began to dance. First she danced slowly, her arms swaying like tree branches in a gentle breeze. Her movements grew bigger and soon she was swirling and shuffling around the circle. She moved with freedom and playfulness, with beauty and grace. She danced all the ways she had learned from the forest. She twisted like a river, she splashed like the rain. She flapped like a bird and slithered like a snake. The animals of the forest loved to watch her dance. The mouse lived closest to the field and he noticed fir...