(a terribly obvious morality tale) A while ago, in a place not hard to find, a hairy brown ape wandered aimlessly in a forest, dragging his thick, hairy knuckles on the ground. The frog Fain played in a puddle, splashing and catching water drops on his tongue. The ape lumbered by and carelessly kicked a …
When my body says bye to this stretch of the sky And gets sunk in the dirt flowers bloom inIf I have to come back on some strange return trackI refuse to come back as a human. A worm would be nice—any spore would sufficeFerns that honor a tree as a steepleI would love to be …
first of all, lie down someplace where one is likelyto find butterflies(the couch in front of the tv is not one of them) stretch out in some grassfeel the green, brushy blades tickle your neckand then—and this is the important part— wait let an ant make his journey over your anklefor all you know, this …
Traditions can be wonder-full things. And we think it can also be helpful to remember that they are created things, things we repeat to remind ourselves of what we value and what we love. We at The Serious Mirth Society are surprised to realize our traditions now involve an annual holiday screening of “Miracle on …
In the beginning, people ate with their hands. At some point, they discovered that sticks could be helpful for transferring food to their mouths. Eventually, they realized that sticks with wider, curvier ends helped even more—especially with slippery things like soup. Enter the spoon. One day, when someone was slurping their soup, an argument broke …
Human beings are odd in that we like to compete in contests we make up ourselves, usually for the highest, or, oppositely, the lowest scores. But since we at The Serious Mirth Society don’t have the slightest ability to do most of those kinds of things well, we just don’t take competition very, well, seriously. …
It’s an understatement to say that we’re living in stressful times. The pressure is affecting us all to varying degrees, and some days it feels like there will be no release. And yet people are still choosing to speak of hope, meaning, and the importance of continued effort. We were very skeptical to say the …
We should warn you—it can be very dangerous to stick googly eyes on things. Not because they’re hard to put on—all it takes is a little tape—but because once you see a thing as having a face, it’s difficult to see a thing as just some-thing anymore. It becomes some-one. Which is what can make …
Once upon a time, a mitten and its hand parted ways. Who knows if the mitten was looking for adventure, or if it just slipped off one cold, wintery day? Alone, it sat on the side of the slushy street, wondering what would happen next. It waited. The days passed—light and dark, snow and cold. …
There are lots of ways to discover things about a person, some more intrusive and less legal than others, depending on who you are—fingerprints, dna samples, retina scans, or the simple observation of whether or not they wear argyle socks. But a person’s laugh? It’s possibly the cheapest, quickest personality test available, and often a …
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