EtchD n' Stone

..HiLo,
...I'm really a very small turtle.
I'm brown colored and have a little head and four arms that help me walk and swim.
I like to swim the most.
I have a little tail, too.
That helps me steer when I'm swimming and helps me balance when I'm walking.
I'm so small, I could fit in your hand.
I don't eat much, but when I do, I eat SeaKrits.
When I speak, which isn't often,
it's sounds real high pitched and squeeky....
and other creatures of the sea can hear me.
Sometimes they can understand me and sometimes they can't.
It doesn't matter.
I dunno .. that's just the way God made me.

...I was swimmin' around the other day and met eD, a sea urchin.
You see, eD can't swim.
eD just sits, reads, sifts, and eats all this flotsam and jetsam that settles unto his home from celestial who knows where.
You see, I like to swim the mostest...
so I asked eD if he had any things he had found that he didn't want, like any green morsels or shiny tiny photophosphorescents.
He said, " nah,.. but you can have these, I don't want 'em. "
I looked them over and tried to digest them ...
again, I don't eat much, but when I do, I eat SeaKrits.
So I left eD, and wandered off on my way.
You see, I like to swim the most.
"!"

fLotSam and jEtSam
The stone which the builders put on one side has become the chief stone of the building.

He is the stone which you builders had no use for, but which has been made the chief stone of the building. And in no other is there salvation: for there is no other name under heaven, given among men, through which we may have salvation.

So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk, Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation; If you have had a taste of the grace of the Lord: To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God; You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God .....

Taino Man to Arawak Man:
I have only two tools to give you .. one's the huracán and the other is the hamaca. The hamaca is used to fish, to sleep in, and to tie oneself to the strongest palm when the storm is raging the hardest. The huracán God give me, so I don't really own it. But being that we are at the calm, the eye of the maelstrom, and you have lost your hamaca, we will tie ourselves together, with this sole remaining hamaca, to the strongest remaining palm and ride out the huracán's fury to the cleansed light of a new day.

The phalarope was walking the beach one day when he happened to meet a small green toad. The toad exclaimed, " what we need around here is a field marshall ! ". The phalarope was astonished to hear such an absurdity and replied, " there's no such thing..." but he thought, " I love little green squishy things, and if I pith him quickly, I can try eating him for lunch ". And with two quick swipes of his beak, the deed was done.