Love, Laughter, Joy, and Being Rumbly in the Tumbly

"What day is it?" asked Pooh.

"It's today," squeaked Piglet.

"My favourite day," said Pooh."

~ A. A. Milne

Mine too! I love today, it’s better than yesterday because yesterday is past, and it’s better than tomorrow.  Who knows if we will have tomorrow?

When my father-in-law Archie was still with us, I would often ask him, “How are you this morning Archie?”  He would invariably reply, “I got up.”  He was right, everything else was secondary.  My Dad, Penman Smith, would say, “K.I.S. S. – Keep It Simple Saint.”  Sometimes we let our over-ambitious expectations get in the way of real living.

I strongly suspect that I was actually named after Christopher Robin in Winnie the Pooh, and I have long had an affinity for the simple philosophy of Winnie.  Life is made up of a very few real enduring things, love, laughter, joy, and being rumbly in the tumbly.

Time to munch and early luncheon

Hum de dum dum dum

Oh, I wouldn't climb this tree

If a Pooh flew like a bee

But I wouldn't be a bear then

So I guess I wouldn't care then

Bears love honey and I'm a Pooh bear

So I do care, so I climb there

I'm so rumbly in my tumbly.

I had an uncle Eeyore.  A. A. Milne wrote about him too:

"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.

"So it is."

"And freezing.'

"Is it?"

"Yes," said Eeyore.  "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately."

I loved my Uncle Eeyore, he was a cuddly kind of gloomy.  His name was really Uncle Ian, but he didn't mind when I called him Uncle Eeyore.

But the one l liked the best was Piglet.  Piglet knew the value of love and friendship.  The simple things are best, love, laughter, joy, and being rumbly in the tumbly.

“If you live to be a hundred,

I want to live to be a hundred minus one day

so I never have to live without you.” - Piglet

Christopher Robin was surprised to discover all the quotes hidden in an old trunk in his memory, but he checked them on line for accuracy.