LESSON 7

The Old Man and the Owl
Mark Wagner © 2005

Setting: dark room, big circle taped to the carpeted floor, kids quietly sitting around, a single candle light in the middle of the room.

So.... as the story goes. Once upon a time there was a kid who got lost in the woods. For 3 days the kids walked through a darkand mysterious forest. On the thrid day they came to a clearing where light shown down onto the ground. There they saw a dry river bed and at that moment an old man walked out from the darkest part of the forest and walked over to the kid and asked them,

"Who are you? and Why are you here?
"Who are you? and Why are you here?

The old man then looked at the dry river bed and said to the kid,"What did you do?"As kids usually answer a question like this, they said,
" I didn't do it! It wasn't me."

Ever hear a kid say that? I have.

Just then an owl flew down from hidding in a tree and landed on the ground in the circle. The old man walked over to the owl and they started to talk. Now I don't know if you know how to talk to animals but you don't use english. You go deep inside yourself and you listen and talk from there. The old man and the owl talked for some time accosionally looking over at the kid and nodding.

The old man walked over to the kid and said that the owl told him that the kid knows how to get the river to flow again. They have to answer this question.

"Who are you? and Why are you here?"