squirrel thunks

Here is the God-gem that made me smile all day yesterday and reminded my why I get out of bed. I was doing my morning yoga practice and big thunks kept hitting the roof of the studio. At first I thought the fir tree was shedding branches but it kept happening over and over. After a particularly loud one, I heard the scurry of little feet and realized it must be squirrels jumping onto the roof. They don't usually jump so repeatedly. I went outside and I looked up into the fir tree and there were four little baby squirrels, sooo cute, staring at me from the lower branches. They were practicing jumping and flying just as the sparrows under the eaves of my bedroom window have been. In every class that day, I told the the students about the squirrels before the first thunk, and then when it happened all my students looked up at the ceiling and smiled. If there is a god, this is how god is manifest in my day: squirrel thunks on the ceiling.