“The key is balance,” Dotty bobbed delicately, defying wind and gravity.
The rest of us clung frantically with all six, desperate to return to lower elevations.
Why did I ever sign up for Advanced Balance?!
If we were meant to be acrobats, we’d have been born in the circus.
“When you’re ready,” Dotty intoned, “be one with the cable …” She lifted a leg on each side to a two-thirds perch.
Insanity.
A wind gust blew me off the bridge. I tumbled, helpless, to be one with the canopies.
Lofty Dotty probably lingered.
Pox on her, the lordly lanternfly!
For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers.
Photo prompt: © Miles Rost
Na'ama Yehuda 
I absolutely LOVE this! What a wonderful take!! LOL…
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😀 She reminded me (and yes, she’s a ‘she’) of a yoga teacher … and the rest is … well … blowing in the wind … 😉
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Na’ama Y’karah,
I generally dread the run of the mill anthropomorphic bug stories. But yours, my dear is anything but run of the mill. Clinging with all six. Love that. Good job!
Shalom,
Rochelle
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😀 This photo insisted on going the yoga-teacher-in-her-zen-perch-leaving-others-to-blow-in-the-wind way …. So … 😀
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Well, who knew there were balance classes and competition in the world of bugs! Good story.
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Survival of the balanciest … 😉
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Great rant
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😀 Ya know how them bugs can bug ya! 😉
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Yoga for beetles! i love it. What a fun story. Love the sounds in the last two lines too.
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🙂 Yoga for beetles. Because I SWEAR I’d seen a dung beetle do a ‘downward dog’! 🙂
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I don’t doubt that for a moment! 😉
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😀 I bet there are some poses they can do better than us, having more appendages. Then again, they don’t have a spine … so … no wonder they need lessons … 😉
Life’s interesting.
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See?
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Great take on the prompt Na’ama. Who would have thought that bugs needed balance lessons too!
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I mean, would YOU wanna be a bug-without-balance? Can you imagine a caterpillar with vertigo? 😉
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Being a human with balance issues has been bad enough. I don’t think any bug would want that. 😂
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LOL, yeah … not to mention more legs to keep track of and stumble over … 😀
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Oh yes!
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🙂
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I love the gentle humour of your story, Na’ama. Yoga teachers never seem to realise that the rest of us aren’t made of india-rubber!
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🙂 Indeed … Though of course not all yoga teachers are self-absorbed … some can be (as in any profession). I think Dotty may be one of them …
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what a delightful story. i like it a lot. 🙂
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Glad you do!
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After reading your story, it’s the only story that makes sense. That is what’s happening in this picture. Perfect!
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🙂 I’m so glad you think so! LOL! 🙂
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Love this. Fun and poignant and carrying a message
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Carrying the message all the way to be one with the canopies … 😉
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🙂
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Thank goodness I wasn’t born a bug! Not only do I dread heights, but I trip over my own feet now – imagine if I had six to cope with! Nice one Na’ama.
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And the centipede is rolling its eyes at us two-legged humanoids who can barely manage the appendages we have. … 😀
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I love it a tale of an acrobatic insect. Well done!
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Thanks, Mason! After all, sometimes these multi-legged creatures are quite ballerina’ish … 😉
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Ha, a ballerina would have been more accurate than an acrobat wouldn’t it. My bad!
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LOL! I think both are kinda’ … well … buggy … 😉
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An entertaining take, well done.
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Thank you, Sandra!
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I guess they gotta learn it somehow. Why not classes? 🙂
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Right?! 🙂
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What an imaginative take on the prompt. I like this one a lot! Brava!
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🙂 Thank you! My little mind likes to go on all kinds of odd tangents sometimes … 🙂
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Bugs having fun, how nice. What they need is sticky feet.
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OOOOOOOOOOOOOh, sticky feet!!!! Yeah! That’ll do it. 🙂
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I love this so much. Twisting one’s body into these poses is difficult enough. If you get this kind of talk on top–being blown off doesn’t seem like such a bad thing. 🙂
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LOL! I guess being ‘one with the canopies’ maybe wasn’t such a bad deal after all, eh? 😉
So glad you liked!
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Fun story. She probably bugs her students a lot.
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🙂 LOL! She probably does!
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Practice makes perfect but a bug’s life only lasts a week, so… she needs to enjoy it while she can in all of her imperfection…
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LOL! Truth! 🙂
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🙂
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