mOOners in Mexico

by Kris

To this day sunsets and all things bright and colorful remind me of "Grandpa Bunny", my favorite childhood book. The story is about Granpa Bunny and all the bunnies of the most wonderfully hued village and forest.

Grandpa Bunny teaches the family the value of beauty and is always surrounded by the little bunnies eager to hear his stories. The bunnies spend their time with paint pots and brushes happily coloring the flowers of spring and summer and the leaves of autumn. One day Grandpa Bunny gathers all the little ones around and tells them a secret. Grandpa Bunny goes away and the mama and papa bunnies are sad but the wee ones know everything is fine and are happy because every evening Grandpa Bunny paints the most wonderful sunsets for them.

(Duffie loves the colors of Aunt Keely's garden and hopes a real bunny will appear...)

 
I love that Mexico is full of color; the flowers spilling out of the gardens, the vegetables and fruits beautifully displayed in the markets, the bright and cheery paints on the buildings, the house-side shrines to the Virgin Guadalupe, and certainly the mesmerizing sunsets. I see the hand of Grandpa Bunny everywhere I look.

 

 

 

Grandpa Bunny's lesson is that when we are gone part of us remains. Our family's favorite Grandma Bunny left us this week.

 

She was as lively and colorful as the most vibrant of Grandpa Bunny's creations. She will be missed like crazy and remembered with love and laughter.

Grandma Bunny, this sunset's for you.