Sophia and I were playing soccer in our fenced in backyard, when suddenly our next door neighbor sneezed loudly:
AAAHHHCHOOOO!
Sophia froze with fright, then ran wide-eyed across the yard, tackled my legs, and attempted to climb me like a scared little squirrel up a tree.
Me: Hey, Sophia! What are you afraid of!....
S: (whispering with a distant look in her eyes) It was a monster noise.
Me: No, honey. It was just a man sneezing. He's just working in his yard.
S: (disappointed) Oh, I thought it was a monster.
Then she continued to kick her soccer ball like nothing had ever happened....
May all the other scary monsters that dare creep into our lives, real or imagined, visible or invisible, without or within, be so easy to scare away.
