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Hello everyone.

list bit of sparkle stories. And welcome to the sparkle stories podcast. This is our final

week of July, our month of wonder. And I'm going to talk about one of my favorite and best

doorways to wonder. And that is animals, critters, and mostly my pets. So I have two dogs. And

there's almost nothing better for me than sitting down with a dog and getting really, really

still and taking a couple deep breaths and then really observing my dogs, being present to my dogs.

And if I sit there and let them snuggle with me and I snuggle them back and I notice their

whiskers and their sweet soft eyes and the way that they move their bodies and wag their tails,

often my whole system will pop into the state of like wow, what a beautiful creature. And it's

my form of wonder. And really, I mean, you could even think about the magic of animals,

the variety of animals. And really, animals are marvelous if you start to study animal facts,

like the crazy things that cats or dogs or snails or koalas can do, that will pop you into wonder as

well. And as I've been saying, wonder is a really marvelous way to look at the world through the

eyes of wonder. So I have picked a story today. It's the very first story from the Junkyard Tales

series. I mean, Junkyard Tales has a bunch of different collections in it. We've been writing it

for over a decade now. And this is the very first story we ever wrote. Actually, I helped write

the story. David and I collaborated and wrote the story together. And if you've not heard Junkyard

Tales stories, this is a perfect introduction. It's the very first story that sets off the entire

series of Junkyard Tales adventures. And hopefully it will draw you into a state of wonder

for the cleverness of the cat Benjamin Thompson and his amazing community of animal friends.

So listen in and find out what happens in the very first story of Junkyard Tales.

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