Ashley Jordyn

Ashley Jordyn Instagram – It is with great joy and sadness that I report that my precious #bennythebabysquirrel has gone to live his life in the wild. I am both devastated and grateful, full of fear and hope for his future. He came back twice to sit on my shoulder with happy squeaks and vibrating excitement, as if to say thank you – as his eyes took in the vastness of his new world and it’s possibility. I hope I taught him what he needs to survive, I hope he knows he can always come visit or come home if he’s scared or hungry. Mostly I hope he knows that his presence made my life more joyful. And while his absence leaves my world less colorful, I know his world just opened up to all the spectrum of living color, and I am grateful.
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“To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life . I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. And then look: you see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the colour of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat…”
– The Little Prince | Posted on 08/Jul/2023 22:50:39