[ SECRET POST #6067 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6067 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[The Great British Bake Off, season 5]



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Comments

Re: What is some childhood stuff that you enjoyed that you don't know if anyone else did?

[(Anonymous)]

Don't remember seeing those.

One of my favorite picture books as a kid was illustrated but not written by Eric Carle, called The Mountain That Loved a Bird.

It's about a bird who migrates over a barren mountain in an empty desert every year. One year the bird stops to rest there, and the mountain begs her to stay, because it's never seen anything so soft and colorful or heard anything sing before.

The bird explains that there's nowhere for her to shelter and nothing for her to eat or drink, and that she will not live as long as a mountain, but promises to stop and sing there every year, and that one of her descendants will do so forever.

Centuries go by and every year the mountain begs the bird to stay, and she promises to come back next year, until one day the mountain begins to weep when she leaves.

The mountain no longer asks the bird to stay when she comes to sing, only cries.

So next year, the bird brings a seed. And another, and another, and the mountain's tears water them.

The mountain stops crying for loss and cries for joy when it realizes it's covered in plants, and streams run into the desert, and animals come to the mountain, and finally the bird comes to stay, and nest in the tree her ancestor planted.

I honestly think it's where my love of Beauty and the Beast/Phantom of the Opera/etc really started, even though it's not a romance. It's really wordy for a kids' book, and I went back and bought a copy as an adult.

Re: What is some childhood stuff that you enjoyed that you don't know if anyone else did?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh wow. As a fellow BatB/PotO fan, that book sounds amazing. Thanks for the rec!

Re: What is some childhood stuff that you enjoyed that you don't know if anyone else did?

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, that is a really sweet story.

Re: What is some childhood stuff that you enjoyed that you don't know if anyone else did?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh. I like how that resolved. As you were telling the story, I was worried the bird was going to take pity on the mountain and eventually freeze to death. Or one of its descendents would. Especially after the mountain started crying. o_o And instead, that was beautiful and everyone lived.