Tim Boyd's Blog

There was once a woman who had an absolutely terrible neighbor.  The woman next door was rude, would borrow things without asking (some people call that stealing), and would only talk to the woman when she needed something.  The nice woman would have let many of these things go and chalked them up as eccentricities if it had not been for one more incredible problem that her neighbor had.  She would throw rocks into her yard!  Not just little pebbles, but full sized rocks.  Where she got them from the woman did not know.  Every day there would be new rocks to pick up out of the yard. At first she was very unhappy.  Why would this woman throw rocks at me?  What’s her problem?  What have I ever done to her?  This would keep her up at night.  She talked to her friends about it.  She never found an answer that would please her. So, one particularly cloudy day she decided to start picking up the rocks and putting them to good use.  She took her focus off of her neighbor and started

There was once a man who was going on a long trip.  He had been planning this trip a long time.  He was very excited to go because he was going to see his friends and family members who have all spread out across the country.  There were some friends he had not seen since he was in elementary school.  That was a long time ago.  When a man goes on a trip as long as this one with as many stops as he was planning to take you have to wonder just why he’s doing it.  He didn’t really understand it.  He just knew that he wanted to take the trip. So he bought a brand new car for the trip.  He had been working with the dealership for a few weeks to make sure he got exactly what he wanted.  It was a nice car.  A sunroof for those beautiful drives at night.  Leather seats that would either heat or cool depending on what you mood you were in.  The best sound system available, and many other amenities.  It was a gorgeous car.  He had spent most of his money on this car and he had very little left.

There once was an army of caterpillars.  They were different ages, but mostly pretty young.  They lived together in a cluster of shrubs.  They blended in very well in this particular shrub and they were very safe.  Most of them were very content to be in this shrub with their friends.  This shrub provided them protection as well as a great supply of food. One day something strange started to happen.  That morning when they all woke up they noticed that some of their friends have disappeared.  They also noticed these strange formations where their friends used to live.  This caused quite a stir and they didn’t really know how to react. “Where’d they all go?” “Where they taken?” “Why didn’t they leave a note or tell us where they were going?” “What are these strange formations?” The rest of the caterpillars got back to work eating leaves and watching out for predators.  They continued with their day as usual and went to sleep in the same place that they have always sl