Harry the Bear Stories
Our Day In A Castle Garden
Harry my Teddy Bear’s Spring Wisdom — a metaphor for the power of writing.
The castle garden looks like new, Dad. The flowers are blooming. A little bit like you! — Harry the Bear.
I would like to introduce Harry the Bear to the Medium community. I adopted the little teddy bear in New York. His adoption story was published in the freestyle section of the “Six Word Photo Story Challenge” publication in March 2022.
A sixty-two-year-old man with a teddy bear you might ask. Really? Harry kept me company since 1996 when I traveled to New York to visit a friend from university.
Harry always invokes pleasant memories of New York and my first trip overseas. The cheeky teddy bear has a voice of his own, and according to him, he speaks to me by whispering his thoughts into my mind.
Harry and I, went for a walk this morning. Harry was ecstatic to get out of the room after a couple of miserable rainy days. We walked past a castle in our local area in the Rhineland Pfalz, in Germany. I decided to go into the garden.
I guess Harry ‘whispered’ the thought to me. Harry wanted to sit on a wall overlooking the garden.
While I took a photo of him, Harry said. “The castle garden looks like new, Dad!” I asked him why he said that.
“Look at all the purple and yellow flowers. They are shining brighter in the warm Spring sun. The icy, snowy winter has gone — a little bit like you Dad!”
This statement of Harry made me think. “What was he trying to tell me?” I thought. “Harry, why did you say — a little bit like you, Dad?”
He studied me with a wicked grin on his fluffy face and replied: “Dad, you changed. You are not so depressed anymore.”
“You think so?” I asked him.
“Yeah! I am sure. It started when you wrote all those poems and creative stuff. You are shining brighter, like the flowers. You even have a hop and skip in your walk that makes me dizzy sometimes from all the bumping around.”
“Hmm,” I thought by myself. “The little fluffy teddy bear nailed it.”
Creative writing helped me to release the pent-up frustration, and anger, I kept inside me for too long. I became unemployed last year and it led to depression, as detailed in my poem ‘Depression Chains.’
Walking in nature and writing are my free therapy sessions. Harry the Bear’s Spring wisdom was a metaphor for my newly discovered writing passion. Thanks, Harry the Bear.
This story was inspired by a Word-A-Day prompt for March 2022, from Promptly Written — Day 20 (Spring). Thank you, Christine Graves.
Thanks for popping by and reading thus far. If you liked this story consider buying me a coffee. I will most likely also enjoy some chocolate mousse cake, on the side.
