People talk about the power of positive thinking. How about simply: the power of thinking. Wishing and hoping doesn't hurt, making a thorough case for your point or desire can be pretty effective. But my daughter takes the cake.
She has asked me every day for a week for a pet rabbit. When I've said "no," she's said she wants the Easter Bunny to leave one in her Easter Basket on Easter Morning, assuming this is an end-run around Mama.
We have an indoor cat. A House Rabbit sounds tenuous and possibly imprudent under the circumstances. It will take a bit of research and quizzing the experts before such a commitment. A fish with a covered tank or a caged hamster sound safer.
But back to the power of thinking.
When we came home this evening, we were greeted in the back yard by a very fat, brown, presumably wild rabbit. The three of us looked as fascinated and startled as s/he. She watched us for a few moments; then dashed under the low deck. We got some carrots and left them around the place where she disappeared and a couple of other places as well. She has since re-emerged and hopped around the yard nibbling grass and carrots.
How in the world my dear, dear child conjured a live rabbit in the back yard by wishing, I don't propose to know, but it has sprinkled our weekend with the fantastical fairy dust of possibility.
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