Around 06:20pm and after watering her Christmas cactus on the front porch, Maw wanted to take an evening walk halfway around our block. So I got her backyard slippers per her request. She was about to go from the front path to the garage and decided to take the side gate instead.
Maw: `Look! There’s a stick!`
Moi: `Okay. I’ll meet you there!`
And there upon the sidewalk was a stick – a tree branch with the perfect curve AND diameter for the handle and the length as tall as my waist! It’s not quite a shillelagh, a walking stick with a knob. But it’s what I hollered out loud in excitement while rounding the corner of our block in front of our home.
We walked around for a few more minutes, saw another small branch near the side of the Chinese house and said under my breath as we walked back:
I love you tree! Thank you God.
It’s a blessing in disguise after blogging about my bad left foot and wanting a makeshift crutch from our nearby eucalyptus tree a few hours ago. Prior to the repair, I blessed it with a small amount of table salt held in my right hand and spoke to it:
May we walk many miles together.
It has a split at the end, which Paw repaired with a simple wrapping of a wire. Because of Paw’s slowness, Maw grabbed the lagari (or saw) and proceeded to chopped off about two inches of the bottom part of the stick, slowly but surely and trimmed off the top edge to my dismay because I thought it was perfect already. Then Paw helped to file off the ends to a somewhat smooth finish. A nice bath of dish washing liquid and a scouring pad cleaned off our new walking stick
Then I kept thinking of a name for Maw’s new walking stick, which I will most likely use. I recalled the 1923 film, `The Ten Commandments`, in which Charlton Heston starred as the Biblical Moses, who parted the Red Sea.
So I thought Moses was an appropriate name for this stick. Then again, Stick, is easier to pronounce and remember. But I was still thinking Charlton or even Charlie as alternate names for this Almighty Stick.
Who knows? Maybe I could tap the stick on the ground and produce a geyser-like, spring water gush upward into the skies. All I know is that my prayers were answered once again! Thanks!
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