A Little Firefly Story
Herland’s Fall Retreat at Robbers Cave was a dream weekend. About 46 of us enjoyed ourselves in the beautiful pine woods of Eastern Oklahoma. The weather was perfect, the pileated woodpeckers made a show for our birdwatchers, and all of the dogs were perfectly behaved and totally lovable, from a husky the size of a wolf down to Joleen, the 8-week old speckled doxie pup. Most of all, the musicians were wonderful, both on and off stage. Thank you Nancy, Millie, Lisa, Mary and Louise.
A lot of folks are going around talking about the great feeling of love abounding all weekend, which sounds a little hokey but it’s true. A little lightning bug story kind of exemplifies it: This little fella blinked behind the performers in the pavilion during most of the concert; at first we were charmed and then worried for it. Sure enough, it was caught in a spider web. Our Texas songstress Nancy Scott rescued it, and painstakingly picked every bit of the sticky web off the tiny little bug. And after resting a little while, by golly, it flew away. So it’s still hokey. But it’s true, and it was wonderful.