“As I walked out one evening, I heard a lover sing… ‘I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you, till the river jumps over the mountain. I’ll love you till the ocean is folded and hung up to dry. The years shall run like rabbits, for in my arms I hold, the Flower of the Ages, the first love of the world.’”
Emperor penguins are lovely creatures. They are smart and playful. They slide on their bellies in the snow, and they swim with the grace of a majestic bird when they are under the water. Emperor penguins mate for life. They know when they have found the one, and they stay together from that moment forward, forever. They don’t let anything come between them. They don’t let anything pull them apart. I think this is truly a beautiful thing. If you had the chance to go back in time, would you be like an emperor penguin? Would I? I’d like to think that we would. And if, by God’s grace, I ever have the chance again, I believe that I will. Because in my heart, in my nature, I am an emperor penguin.