The Disappearing Snail

It has been slightly over a year ago when something as tiny as a snail changed my life forever. The only eyewitness is my 5 year old son. Well, actually I'm the eyewitness to the event because technically the event happened to him, he was 4 at the time. If he hadn't been there I probably wouldn't have believed my own eyes.

It was a hot and sunny morning, (we have a lot of those in South Florida) nothing unusual with the weather. Me and the youngest were hanging out in the back yard alternating swimming with playing in the yard. My son has a fascination with all creatures small as do most young boys. He picked up a snail he found in the grass and with unbridled enthusiasm brought it to my attention. I stopped everything I was doing and knelt next to him, bringing all my awareness into the present moment. If he could get this excited over a snail, so could I. Both of us looked at the snail with child's eyes. He turned it upside down, then turned it on it's sides, the left, then the right. We inspected it for several minutes and talked about how we used to feed them to his brother's turtle, and how it was the color brown. I thought to myself how fortunate this snail was that we no longer had a turtle. And when he was bored with the snail he set it on the cement walk and that's when it happened. The moment the snail touched the cement it disappeared. I saw it happen and almost immediately the logical part of my brain took over and dismissed what my eyes had seen. I was ready to stand up and walk away when my son, in his cute 4 year old voice asked, "Mama, where did the snail go?" I thought to myself, "Yes, where DID the snail go?" At this point I swept my hand back and forth over the cement, thinking I could touch it, maybe it was just blending in with the cement. I took both of my son's hands in my hands and inspected them, turning them over, maybe it had stuck to his hand. We searched the entire area and each other for quite a while and never did find the snail. That's when it hit me, we had just witnessed something disappearing off the face of the earth! The old cliche in real time! I stood there in total astonishment. Then I started making phone calls to anyone I thought might slightly understand, but everyone had the same reaction, "Are you sure?" maybe this, and maybe that, and offered suggestions that had no relevance, and I firmly held my ground stating it had simply disappeared. I saw it with my own eyes, and so did my son.

It wasn't until I went to work the next day that a co-worker of mine agreed and said more things like this will start happening and I should read, "Dear God What's Happening To Us" by Lynn Grabhorn. He said we are forming a new planet and whoever chooses to reside there will, and things will just start disappearing from the old world to go there, Like the snail. I thought, "You're kidding me" This is the first I've heard about this. I want to know everything I can about this because I'm all for a new planet, I've been disappointed in this one for quite some time now. Wow, something great to look forward to...and what an interesting journey has begun....