Think before you speak

She knew, as we all do, the power of words. We are taught from very young to think long before we speak. Though the young are spared the power as they are given time to learn to control their bodies and their minds, they, too, know from very young the care that must be taken with words.

And, thus, she knew that she had made a grave error.

She had been having such a lovely day in the field with her two young ones. The sun shown brightly and a warm breeze carried the scent of lavender. They had picked (and eaten) berries to make a pie and then flowers to put on the kitchen table. Their basket full, they lay in the grass, each beneath one of her arms, looking up at the clouds dotting the blue sky, naming the objects and creatures they saw.

They laughed as each description was more outrageous than the last. One of the young ones sighed and said, "I wish we could stay like this forever. "

She responded, "Me, too."

And there they remain, lost in a sliver of a moment in time, invisible to all but each other and the unchanging blue sky.