As soon
as my crew stepped through the doors of the British Museum last summer, we
grabbed a map and made a beeline for the cat mummies.
Because,
you know, if you take a deep look into anybody’s bucket list you’ll find…
#99. See
a cat mummy.
CheckMARK
on #99!
After that big mission accomplishment, I had some spare time to pepper my teens with “What if” questions.
It’s
what I do…
And
eventually they’ll grow up, join an “Adult Children of ‘What if’ Peppering Parents”
and recover.
Anyway, as
I stood there reading about the cat mummification process, I hit upon my best
“what if” questions of the day…
What if the ancient Egyptians were right about the afterlife?
What if you really do get to
take all of your stuff with you?
Do you have any idea what this means?!
“We have
no idea,” responded the teens, “but we’re pretty sure you’re going to tell us.”
It means that somebody just woke up
and said, “Holy sarcophagus, WHERE is my CAT?!”
Think about it – there you are
living large and Egyptian in the afterlife and stuff just starts disappearing with
each archeological dig – the pottery, the jewelry, your pets…
The
teens laughed to humor me, but probably wanted me to give it a rest as I began calling
out each new artifact.
Whoa, there goes my scarab!
And my flail!
Dang it, where did I put my canopic
jar?!
And then
my son snapped this picture –
Yeah, an
orb showed up – plain as day, there on his little camera screen.
And oh,
how I reveled in all of my delicious parental rightness!
Because
everyone agreed –
Without
a doubt, that ghostly globe had come back…
to get
his cat.
PROMPT: Write like an Egyptian! How’s that
afterlife treating him or her? Hieroglyphics are optional.
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