I opened the valentine. Inside were 4 plastic

I opened the valentine. Inside were 4 plastic corn cob holders and a card that read: "I want to kiss you behind the ears." That's it. Nothing else. And it wasn't signed.

My eyes wandered to each of my travel companions in turn. The lion? A coward. The woodsman? No heart. The scarecrow? He looked at my balefully, the corny grin gave him away.

, but I decided to live off the land. I didn't want anything to do with "Wicked witches" and "Wizards of Oz". I'd just tease the trees until they threw apples for me to eat and

Then make applesauce to he canned. I would wait for the grape vines to grow the right grapes for making my own dandelion wine in the basement. The dandelions were always waiting to

bloom in their own time, in their own way. "Just give them space, and time will sort everything out."

If nothing else, remember what Charles Fort said. "It steam engines when it steam engine times". Everything will come into fullness whether it is religion or science, or both. Puzz

-led? Me too. But Charles Fort isn't puzzled, the putz. He thinks that just because he spouts nonsense, he knows everything. But he doesn't know that I am running away with his

shoelaces as he continues his diatribe about how the Earth is flat. We all know it was proven 1150 years ago the Earth is actually rectangular. I ran faster clutching the laces in

my left hand and an atlas in my right. I stopped outside his mother's house and banged on the door. "The Earth is rectangle! Tell your children!" I shouted. She closed the curtain.