Seussical

Waynesboro High School did an excellent job of putting on the show. The fun story was complemented by lively costuming and great delivery. My brothers, excuse my bias, were outstanding.

One of the stories weaving through the musical was one of Gertrude (a bird self conscious about the plainness of her tail) and her love for Horton the elephant. Because it’s a Dr. Seuss world, it all works out in the end (between the bird and the elephant). It left me wondering, however, how to let the girls I know with one-feather tails, know that they are noticed, appreciated, valuable, . . . . It would be easier if we were two single birds with a future ahead of us, but often I am an elephant, they are a bird, we don’t live in a Dr. Seuss world, and there can be no Elephant-Bird babies. It is this issue that sometimes makes me hesitant to notice the “plain” birds around me. I don’t want the poor bird flying off to make ready a nest, that I as an elephant can’t climb into.