Ep 19 · The Not-Yet Day

Zippy the hummingbird CANNOT wait. There's a chrysalis on a branch about to become a butterfly — "almost ready," everyone keeps saying — and almost-ready is the hardest thing Zippy has ever heard. She tries fanning it, singing to it, even helping it open early... and nearly spoils the very thing she's been longing for. With Rex right beside her, the friends learn to wait together — and the butterfly comes out, in its own good time, all the bigger for the waiting. A gentle story about patience: that good things keep their own season, and the waiting can be part of the gift — even waiting for a friend to come home (the friends miss Fern, away on her adventure). Anchored in a line the wise King Solomon wrote down in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes — to every thing there is a season. With Professor Hoot's Totally True Facts on the cicadas that wait underground for years, and a Mudpuppy Minutes that explains, confidently and gloriously wrong, why morning always comes. For kids ages 4-12. Stories of patience and kindness from Old Timber and the friends at Shiloh Creek.