Ep 21 · The Very Good Day

Something happens at Shiloh Creek that has never happened before: a human comes to visit — a curious, kind, clever boy named Jigstar, who follows the water right into the middle of the morning. The animals are amazed ("Where's your TAIL? Can you do a BACKFLIP? Can you SLIDE?"), but then Jigstar turns the question around and asks THEM: do you ever wish you were something else? One by one the friends admit a secret wish — fast Zippy wishes she could be still, slow Shelly wishes she were quick, and loud Garingo wishes he were as brave on the inside as he sounds on the outside — until it starts to seem like nobody is glad to be themselves. It takes the boy's fresh eyes to help the whole Creek see what they couldn't: each one was made different, on purpose, and that is exactly the good of it. A warm story about belonging and being made wonderful — that you don't have to be like anyone else to be made just right. Anchored in a line from the very first pages of the Bible, in the book of Genesis: God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. With Professor Hoot's Totally True Facts on the platypus — the animal that looks like it's made of bits of every other animal, and is wholly, perfectly itself — and a Mudpuppy Minutes that explains, confidently and gloriously wrong, what a human is. For kids ages 4-12. Stories of kindness and wonder from Old Timber and the friends at Shiloh Creek.