The Three Minute Grandparent

  Do You have a magic key? Perhaps I should give a few more details to you. Our car needed to go into the shop and insurance told us to go to a car rental location and pick up our temporary vehicle. Upon arrival, the helpful employee brought the vehicle to us. It was a fairly large (compared to our car) Crossover. The helpful employee showed us how to operate this rather complicated moon rocket. First, there is no key…only a black fob with pictures of our wishes on one side. Want to open the door? Press a magic button. Want to open the rear hatch? Press another magic button. Oh, and by the way, one can open the hatch by a button on the driver’s side, a button on the hatch, and by waving your foot under the hatch! This sounds like magic to me! The front seats almost adjust themselves to your innermost desires. The driver’s dash looks similar to Elon Musk’s SpaceX control panel. I was content to leave the current view alone…no! The vehicle began showing me many possibilities fo...

  He was selfish, narcissistic, and devoid of compassion.   He cared for no one and used people for his own pleasure.   One day, he was given the opportunity to help a poverty stricken person…he failed miserably!    The situation was not what it seemed, as the one who was seemingly in poverty was actually a personage of great authority and stature.   The selfish one was given a unique punishment.   He was driven away from society and given a limited time to learn how to love and thereby earn the love and trust of another. You may have already guessed who the character is…yes, it’s The Beast from Beauty and The Beast .   A spoiled prince was punished, transformed into a beast, for his lack of love and caring, yet he learned to love through a series of circumstances involving a lovely young lady, who by the way, learned to love him.   The climax of our story comes when Beast dies, and Belle expresses true love for him.   Even though dead...