Burying Ariel
“Taylor had a new skipping rope, and she was making a lazy crack-the-whip movement with it through the grass so the cats could chase its iridescent rainbow handle. All three were blissed out, and I thought, not for the first time, that being a cat must be one of the alltime great gigs.Taylor held out the rope to show me. “I got this for helping with garbage patrol.”“Very fancy,” I said. “I used to get a new rope every spring.”She looked at me with amazement. “Can you skip?”“Can Wayne Gretzky sco...re goals?”“I don’t know,” she said, “can he?”“Not so many any more,” I said. “But I haven’t retired. Why don’t you give Bruce and Benny a rest and let me have a turn?”The moment I began to skip, the tensions of the day dropped away. Salvation through muscle memory. Taylor watched, saucer-eyed, as I not only skipped, but rattled through my store of old skipping songs.When Angus pulled up, he took in the scene, jumped out of his car, and yelled, “You go, Mum.”MoreLess
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