Spoons can do a lot of things. They are actually a pretty cool intervention.
Of course, the obvious. You can eat with a spoon. Lots of things. Potato soup on a Sunday afternoon in the wintertime. Peanut butter at midnight, when nothing else will do. A taste from the pot of whatever is cooking. But it is probably spaghetti sauce. You see? The spoon.
Those who know how can make music by playing the spoons.
You can look at yourself upside down on the concave side.
There are a million uses for a spoon. Maybe.
But what about filling it with water?
That way, you could give someone a drink.
So, let’s say if we get a shiny spoon and fill it with good water, we could give a little creature a drink.
You might have to snoop around a bit to find some little creature who might be thirsty.
I’d try a lizard first. It seems like lizards should be thirsty. They look thirsty to me.
A whole spoonful might be too much for an ant. And not quite enough for a squirrel. So. Start in between.
With a little lizard size thing.
Like the Common Five-Lined Skink (Plestiodon fasciatus)
This lizard is recognizable by its five light stripes running down its dark body. And hey. You have seen them. The juveniles have a bright blue tail.
But I should tell you this. When threatened, they exhibit incredible speed and agility, darting into hiding spots to escape predators. They think we are predators. So, if you go at it with a spoon, you might want to let it know you’re coming. Give it a heads up about the whole water thing.
But back to the spoon. It is one of the oldest and simplest inventions of mankind. So simple, this eating utensil. But what great things it does in its simplicity. Its origins date back thousands of years, and its history spans multiple cultures and eras. It goes all the way back to Prehistoric times. Those early spoons were made from things like seashells, animal bones, and wood.
The simplest thing. But oh so brilliant.
And it serves everyone it meets with its goodness.
I think we humans could take a lesson from the spoon.
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“To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.”
– John Adams
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“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”
– Dalai Lama
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“A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.”
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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What’s in a spoon? A lot. It seems.
