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Published On: Mar 07, 2006 03:02 PM
Total entries in this category: 51
Published On: Mar 07, 2006 03:02 PM
Christmas Miracle
On my way back home today, on the street in front
of where we live, I saw an elephant.
I was coming home from school, on the route that I
walk once or twice every day. I walk this route so often that I no longer notice
much of what I pass on the street. There are horses pulling apple carts, women
shaving the husks off sugarcane, donkeys trotting alongside sanlunches, peasants
poking through garbage. It all just fades into the background.
But when, just before turning the corner into our housing complex, I looked up to see the big grey ass of an elephant, I was a bit startled. On second glance, it wasn't an elephant after all, but a water buffalo. Some farmer had yoked her plow animal to a cart to deliver cabbage to town. She was selling it by the side of the road. The buffalo stood by patiently, warily eyeing his surroundings. It may not have been an elephant, but it was still bigger and heavier than most vehicles on the road.
So it wasn't what I thought, but I was pleased to know that there is still some level of novelty that catches my attention. I am not yet jaded about everything. That's my best Christmas present, and it was not a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer, but a clumsy wooden cart and a big-assed buffalo, that brought it to me.
But when, just before turning the corner into our housing complex, I looked up to see the big grey ass of an elephant, I was a bit startled. On second glance, it wasn't an elephant after all, but a water buffalo. Some farmer had yoked her plow animal to a cart to deliver cabbage to town. She was selling it by the side of the road. The buffalo stood by patiently, warily eyeing his surroundings. It may not have been an elephant, but it was still bigger and heavier than most vehicles on the road.
So it wasn't what I thought, but I was pleased to know that there is still some level of novelty that catches my attention. I am not yet jaded about everything. That's my best Christmas present, and it was not a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer, but a clumsy wooden cart and a big-assed buffalo, that brought it to me.
Posted: Thu - December 25, 2003 at 01:09 AM