“Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

Remember the message written by Charlotte in her spider web that said, “Some Pig” and because it appeared in print it became a truth? She wrote this about Wilbur the pig, the runt of the litter. We have all thought a lot this year about what is true and how we know it to be so. I’m happy that Wilbur the pig lived, thanks to Charlotte’s well-placed note that he was “Some Pig”. He became noticed, and aimed to live up to all the words that Charlotte wrote about him, including “Brilliant” and “Terrific”. It is important at this time to note that Wilbur was not making these claims himself, but making every effort to live up to them, even performing a back flip

 

 

Charlotte ends her web notes with a word that seems of have been forgotten of late, and that is the word “humble”. E.B.White realized as a writer, the power of the written word, putting out a message could make it so. Of course because we fell in love with Wilbur we believed the messages, we wanted them to be true. Was Wilbur truly special, or did the woven words make it so?

 

In the spirit of E.B. White, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year

 

“To all skaters on small natural ponds, at the edge of the woods, toward the end of the afternoon”

“Merry Christmas skaters.”