Blue Butterfly Learning

 

I love to learn! One of my favorite quotes about learning is from Louis L'Amour. He wrote in his memoir, Education of a Wandering Man, "Somewhere along the line I had fallen in love with learning, and it had become a lifelong romance" Sometimes my kids tease me because I love to learn so much and I get VERY excited about learning new things. This week the best things I learned is that Mark Twain was a trouble maker! There was a cave near his home that was full of bats. He loved bats so much that he wanted to share it with the person her loved more than anyone, his mother. So he took her home a bat in his pocket. She screamed when she reached in his pocket for her surprise and Mark Twain lamented that she didn't properly appreciate bats. Another time he found a nest of garter snakes and took all the babies home in his handkerchief to share with his aunt. He put them in her sewing basket, and that night, when she sat down to do the mending all these baby snakes crawled out onto her lap. She screamed and then scolded. He said she must have been related to his mother because she didn't properly appreciate the snakes, anymore than mother appreciated the bats. 😂 I feel like we could have been very good friends, because I know how to appreciate snakes and bats, even if my husband doesn't, but I only brought home one snake.😂