my one sister can sing pretty damn well
I can dance, more or less.
the little one can neither sing nor dance but she goes ahead and does both anyway. which is a very admirable thing dont you think. i think so and i think that maybe one day she might be able to do both, just because she's been practicing... ok so she fell down and broke her ankle last fall. that kind of scared her so now she is always looking at her feet... and fear is really not a good thing either when you are trying to dance or ANYTHING.

so anyway I took The Dog out after lunch for a walk. the streets all around the neighborhood were icy and slippery. we walked. we walked some more. trying to keep balance so as not to fall... then I almost lost my balance... tried for several seconds to keep standing... maybe half a minute... tried so hard my thighs hurt. then I thought to myself, what the heck, Id better fall than hurt myself trying to stay up! and it dawned on me that well you know what maybe falling isnt such a bad thing after all, actually it is the natural thing when the road is so icy and slippery. and it is maybe stupid to try so hard to stay up you lose so much energy while you can just fall and get up again which could actually take you less time, too, than trying to balance yourself on ice with all your strength and then fall anyway.

its not so bad to fall. it is not half as bad as one expects. it seems the fear is greater than the pain and falling can even be kinda fun.

so after this little piece of wisdom striked me I just got back home and took out my little sister and told her we were going out to have some fun... i mean it was a perfectly icy road and it wasnt really cold so there was my chance. little did she know what i had in mind. we just went out there and started running around and pushing each other and playing with the dog and just kept falling. of course it wasnt so easy to convince a teenager virgo to just let go and let fall. so first i explained she had to learn how to fall so that she wont break her ankle or anything else for that matter next time. that seemed to do the trick, you just have to give her a good reason and she will go along with pretty much anything because she trusts her oldest sister (ME!)

so there we continued... falling and getting up and falling again and all over. it was fun. yes we got our butts all blue but who cares. we learned how to fall. even more important, we learned not to be afraid to fall because its so much fun to get back up especially when you have your sister and your dog around to cheer on you and then push you right back down.

so after a couple hours when we had fallen enough times to be called the rainbow kids for the next two weeks we went home and had a tea and sugar feast...