A childhood memory reverberates today. In the barnyard, Goosey Lucy wanders under the old oak tree, when something hits her on the head. She looks up into the clear blue sky, between the oak leaves. “Oh my goodness, the sky is falling!” she says. Henny Penny comes running over, “What did you say?” “I said the sky is falling.” “Oh no,” shrieks Henny Penny, and soon all the barnyard friends are following, in line, crying at the top of their voices, “The sky is falling, the sky is falling!”
Then along comes Foxy Loxy, “What is going on here?” The hysterical group rushes him over to the site where Goosey Lucy had been hit on the head, looking up, while Foxy Loxy points down and says, “It was only an acorn dropped off the tree.” Soon, all the barnyard friends are back scratching through the soil, looking for seeds, worms, and leaves as if nothing had happened.
