The Adventures of Dot and Mae

Dear Readers, today Dot and Mae want to introduce you to a good friend of theirs named Zigle (it rhymes with giggle!). Zigle is a quiet fellow who comes from a place far away, but whenever he’s in the neighborhood he stops by the China Cupboard and visits Dot and Mae. Although Zigle is quiet, he does talk when he has something to say. That’s one thing Dot and Mae like about him - when he talks you know it’s important.

One day, Zigle came by and told Dot and Mae this story:

Perceptions

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: “I am blind, please help.” There were only a few coins in the hat.

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, “Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?”

The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.”

What he had written was: “Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it.”

Both signs told people the boy was blind. While the first sign simply said the boy was blind, the second sign pointed the fortunate ones to their positive possibilities.

Moral of the Story: Be thankful for what you have. Be creative. Be innovative. Think differently and positively. Invite the people towards good with wisdom.

Dot and Mae hope that you know what a wonderful person you are - full of great ideas and interesting thoughts and stories! They could go on all day about how fantastic you are, but mostly they just wanted to remind you to remember it about yourself!