Hermux Tantamoq, watchmaker and respectable mouse, was asked by his good friend Mirrin who was blind, to describe the everyday beauty and write it down to the sketchbook, to read her later. This is what he wrote every day in the evenings according to what he´d experienced:
"Thank you for friendship most of all. Thank you for cufflinks. And for singing larks dressed up like carnival moths. Thank you for dark theatres. For mousetraps even. Thank you for Terfle. For cotton sheets and soft pillows and apple juice. And cheese.
Thank you for surprises, for adventure. Thank you for nice mice like Blanda Nergup, for intrigue, for rascals like Nock Noddem, for sceptical policemen. Thank you for elevators and trams and newspapers. Thank you for friendly neighbours. For rules to follow and rules to break. And thank you in advance for a good night´s sleep.
Thank you for unexpected surprises. Thank you for airmail. Thank you for gossipy postmice. Thank you for corner grocers. For sandwiches and honey fizz. For scary news and narrow escapes and trolleys and shopping-bags. Thank you for loyal pets and bold adventurers (and adventuresses). Thank you for hidden tribes and secret formulas and peculiar neighbours and snoopy reporters. Thank you for installation art. And snacks. And for a safe place to lay my head at night.
Thank you for good friends like Pup. And Terfle. Thank you for hope. For lights in windows. For finding the way home. Thank you for the scent of fresh mown hay. For picnics. For sunsuits. For moonlit rivers, and apple orchards, and foggy drives. Thank you for doughnuts. And locks on doors."
(Michael Hoeye - Time Stops for No Mouse)
A beautiful story, offering more than ordinary action, written with soft humor making you maybe not bursting with laughter, but smiling the whole time you read it...
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