{Up above or down below, it all looks swell to me.}
Watching the enjoyment of animals at the zoo was a good start to Sunday. The seals returned but to new improved enclosure, the little penguins too, seeing them revel in the larger bluer space, bobbing in the manmade current, made the heart beat a little bit faster. In blue waters, they frolicked as only those with flippers truly can, or sat motionless on giant grey rocks, catching breath, oblivious to the crush of families pressed against the glass barrier. Looking at such underwater acrobatics, from underground observatory, I longed to swim, with them or alone. Engaged in the art of beholding something wonderful and nibbling on hot chips, the rush of Christmas seemed world away for a moment.
{I think I know where I would rather be. Fooling about in the water.}
(Today my parents have been married 40 years. xo)
