For the last few weeks, the conversation I have with Gabriel (who turned 2 on Sunday) at bedtime goes like this:
Me: "What kind of story do you want tonight?'
Gabriel: "Rock story."
So I tell a story about a rock. If I try to tell a story twice I invariably hear the demand, "new one".
Anyway here are 3 new stories about rocks... more on the way...
THE LONELY ROCK
Once there was a rock.
As far as the rock knew, it was alone in the world — one rock sitting quietly by itself on a grassy field that spread out as far as the eye can see. But this rock had no eyes and it saw nothing, so it did the only thing it knew how to do, it rolled. It rolled through days and nights and rain and fog until it bumped up against another rock.
The two rocks enjoyed one other's company so there they stayed until they were bumped by a third rock and three was even nicer than two so they cuddled up for a very long time until along came another, and maybe a year later another, and another, and so on. After a more days than even I know how to count, where there had once been one rock in a field, there was now a great pile of rocks. Birds came and made their nests on the pile and grass grew up around the edges and the rocks forgot they were rocks and today they speak with one voice when they bother to speak at all, because they are happy bunch, happy to have found one another in such a wide world, happy to have found their place. And today they call themselves a mountain.
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Comments:
"The dead knights' ghosts haunted the rock, but grew bored and wandered away" - How cute is that?
"It dreams of rolling up to the castle and smashing the gate if only to see the geode room." Hee hee!
Gabriel might also enjoy "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble" by William Steig, though now that I think, it may be a bit scary or claustrophobic. Maybe not -- I'll have to go dig it up and reread it.
We're big William Steig fans... and the Magic Pebble is well worn on our shelves.
These were marvelous Raul. Gabriel is a lucky little boy not only because you take top marks for imagination but also because you have the patience and love to weave these stories for him. I want to hear more!
Thanks for sharing.
I love all three, but I think my favorite is The Lonely Rock. I still remember stories my dad used to tell me before bed. Thanks for the lovely reminder :)
I only read that first one -- it was really good! I just read it out loud to Jung and he got a nice chuckle out of it. I feel like I can totally see it as a children's book reading it to the boys and then having to read it over and over again!
i love your lonely rock story. thanks for sharing and for the inspiration to make up stories for my kids. fun.
Best children's stories are about rocks! Yours are so charming. Please read "Everybody Needs a Rock" by Byrd Baylor, it is one of my all-time favorites.
Very nice. Really enjoyed them. Will quote you in a Christian sermon about people being "living rocks!"
LOVE the last story😀
I read "The Loney Rock" to my girlfriend every once in a while to send her off to sleep. We are both 23. Been reading it to her for a couple of years now. It's her favorite story. So your story also works on adults too!!!