A mouse ran in front of me today… A tiny brown mouse with fast shifty eyes or it would have bumped into me. And a nose that sniffed and sniffed for whatever it needed to make its day one hundred percent great.
Did I see the mouse today because it’s Dr. Seuss’s birthday? Wouldn’t that be cool if one of the greatest writers to date had pulled off a Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore scene by reaching through reality and touching the word pictures I paint?
“Hey Mr. Poet from the forest,” He’d shout out to me in a funky funny mouse way. “I’ve got a radio commercial that needs your attention yesterday!”
Such is the luck! Maybe John Lennon will pass leaving behind a lyric or two that’ll comfortably fit into a worn out shoe walking toward a horizon filled with the continuation of peace.
To many, the thought of field mice, black crows or tiny toads being something of importance are the last thing to digest on a plate of too much to accomplish yet who’s the first to hit the web for daily horoscopes, affirmations or stock market prices that teeter totter between the beads that make up an abacus?
Ronald and Nancy Reagan weren’t too shy to admit they located peace while looking up to study the stars. How planets and other shiny things meet, greet and slide beside is something they believed was part of their separate journeys. Although it’s rumored worldly decisions were powered by the heavens, bad press pressed its evil sword into their efforts quickly turning the subject into don’t ask, don’t tell.
A mouse ran in front of me today… I didn’t race to stomp on its morning jog nor did I send for the dogs. I study Native American theory; what is done to one is done back to you just so you know what they went through.
I researched the mouse! Who? What? Where? Why? Shapes, sizes, everything! I learned about how some religions believe the itty bitty tiny eyed giant monster with big ugly teeth to billions was designed by the dark side to enforce bad behavior on Noah’s ark. Why then does the snake eat the mouse? Aren’t they batting for the same team? Oh I’m gonna get emails for that one.
Native American’s believe the mouse symbolizes a single message; let it go. What? The way a mouse quickly sneaks under a door, slips through cracks in an assumed perfect wall and lives inside massive amounts of darkness proves it has no problem letting things go to get what’s required to reach a destination.
The fox is known for being shy but very sly; the owl teaches inner powers due to its sight to see late, late at night, the humming bird opens the heart while a fuzzy big nosed scampering species that makes people leap on chairs with screams so loud Richter Scales are set off in other countries carries the message to let it go.
The Chinese Zodiac says 2011 is the year of the golden rabbit. Does that mean these twelve months that make up our unwritten chapters will zoom past us much faster than the Roadrunner being chased by the Coyote? Not so! Rabbits are associated with good luck. Therefore the Chinese believe this is the year your life will be blessed with incredible amounts of friends you can trust. Basically meaning its ok to grab your breath and calm your nerves.
Like horoscopes and other good words; every moment we’re awake goes in one ear and right out the other. I often wonder if computers do the same, “Lord have mercy here comes that freak poet wanna be who claims he saw a mouse. Oh my God I would bolt but this fricken tower is too heavy to haul into a different radio station production room and what if the dang wall outlet is full? Please All Mighty Apple Maker grant me peace!”
Today’s challenge is to be you and accept you being who you are. If you love the stars be happy. If animals tickle your toes creating smiles to share with bored grocery store shelf stockers then let it fly. Find no reason to put energy in the art of judgment gone wild. Let Charlie Sheen be Charlie no matter where Charlie is or will be. Let those in Wisconsin raise their voices louder than someone screaming about a mouse. May the change makers of the Middle East be who they set out to be today and those who chose to go to work to do nothing more than get the job done so they can rush home.
Let it go…
I will always believe in you first…
arroecollins@clearchannel.com
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