The next week the professor again couldn't stop thinking about the frog. She googled it (nothing) she tried to draw it (no, too flat, too cartoonish) and then finally stopped and sat herself outside to be extra extra extra quiet.
What is it I'm supposed to be learning from this frog the professor asked the universe and the answer was silence, silence and more silence.
Am I supposed to jump like a frog, she wondered, but that didn't sound right.
Maybe I'm supposed to work on this pose she thought and of course that was the answer so she got right into Tree Pose.
She stood straight up on one leg, tucked the other foot above her knee making a right triangle.
It was hard to hold, she fell out of it, laughing.
Again she tried to hold the tree pose, to be like a tree, strong, silent, balanced. Again she fell down, laughing.
Over the next week she worked on her tree pose over and over and over, telling people they should try it, they should try it and try to learn to be like a a tree - solid, quiet, flexible, strong. People nodded and changed the subject.
Morning after morning, night after night the professor tried to stand like a tree, to stand like the frog and keep her balance while looking up to the sky, to the universe and each time she tried she fell over, laughing.
What is it I'm supposed to be learning from this frog the professor asked the universe and the answer was silence, silence and more silence.
Am I supposed to jump like a frog, she wondered, but that didn't sound right.
Maybe I'm supposed to work on this pose she thought and of course that was the answer so she got right into Tree Pose.
She stood straight up on one leg, tucked the other foot above her knee making a right triangle.
It was hard to hold, she fell out of it, laughing.
Again she tried to hold the tree pose, to be like a tree, strong, silent, balanced. Again she fell down, laughing.
Over the next week she worked on her tree pose over and over and over, telling people they should try it, they should try it and try to learn to be like a a tree - solid, quiet, flexible, strong. People nodded and changed the subject.
Morning after morning, night after night the professor tried to stand like a tree, to stand like the frog and keep her balance while looking up to the sky, to the universe and each time she tried she fell over, laughing.
