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You See, Years Ago I Was Just An Ordinary Bee Minding My Own Business, Smelling Flowers All Day, And Occasionally Picking Up Part-time Work In People's Bonnets. Then One Day I Realized That I'd Never Amount To Anything Without An Education And, Being Naturally Adept At Spelling, I Decided That—

If Something Is There, You Can Only See It With Your Eyes Open, But If It Isn't There, You Can See It Just As Well With Your Eyes Closed. That's Why Imaginary Things Are Often Easier To See Than Real Ones.

Have You Ever Heard The Wonderful Silence Just Before The Dawn? Or The Quiet And Calm Just As A Storm Ends? Or Perhaps You Know The Silence When You Haven't The Answer To A Question You've Been Asked, Or The Hush Of A Country Road At Night, Or The Expectant Pause In A Roomful Of People When Someone Is Just About To Speak, Or, Most Beautiful Of All, The Moment After The Door Closes And You're All Alone In The Whole House? Each One Is Different, You Know, And All Very Beautiful, If You Listen Carefully.

When You're Very Young And You Learn Something - A Fact, A Piece Of Information, Whatever - It Doesn't Connect To Anything.

To A Child, And To An Adult, Too, What You Discover By Yourself, Or What You Think You Discover By Yourself, Is What Stays.