A Karine Story
One hot summer day, Grandfather Fox trotting along a deep forest trail came to the edge of a small, deep river. Knowing that the river was deep and he could not see under the surface of the water; he decided to rest on the bank in the cool shade and figure out how he was going to safely cross.
In the nearby bushes, many rabbits were watching the old fox. Soon their curious minds got the best of them so they slowly approached the resting fox. When they neared the fox they asked the wise old fox why he was sitting by the river and staring at it? “I’m sitting here using my wisdom to come up with a plan to cross the river,” he said. “One must have a plan. If you do not have a plan, then one can not build a strong bridge to safely cross the river.” This made sense to the rabbits and who was going to challenge a wise old fox. So the rabbits sat with the old fox waiting for the answer to his question. For many days they sat there waiting.
One day, a jaguar came to the river’s edge. This jaguar was huge. The jaguar walked to the edge of the river and then swam across the river.
A few minutes later, a tiny mouse came to the river. The tiny mouse first looked upstream, then downstream. Finding a thin tree branch that reached over the river the tiny mouse climbed the tree and crossed the river without getting one tiny foot wet.
The rabbits saw the jaguar swim the river and the tiny mouse cross the river so they wondered why they couldn’t swim or find a strong tree branch to cross the river. So they continued to wait until the wise old fox had a plan.
The End