08/07/2026
Toms Brook Rocks
Since some have lost the ability to enjoy dawn’s or sunset’s most familiar or most unusual, there’s obviously a need to lock those adults away without a key, so others’ enjoyment of stomping in the mud puddles after a warm rain or marveling at the rainbow that arches over the town encourages more unbridled smiles - wonder and amazement.
And this is exactly what Toms Brook Rocks (literally) is all about.
Early last week, a little Toms Brook angel decided that she and her little brother (I am sure with the guiding hand of a mother interested in occupying summer minds) discovered and painted several rocks and hid the painted rock faces around the little village of Toms Brook, each rock inscribed with a message to find said rock and hide said rock for another finder.
Now, the little angel is but five years old and her brother even younger, so the rocks are not profoundly hidden but rather deposited along familiar steps on the path any pedestrian may take in Toms Brook.
It’s a game.
It’s for fun.
It’s to make a person smile, and that rock with bulging eyes brings a smile.
The challenge to hide the rock again brings delight.
So goes the game.
So goes the fun.
So goes the smile.
Imagine a world where the goal – no matter how childish – was to make those walking up and down the streets, east or west, north or south, to smile in unexpected wonder - at finding a rock with bulging eyes or seeing a rainbow’s arch.
Imagine a world where the goal was to share – not win – the magic of wonder. Now, imagine that happiness crowding streets – even the globe – and smile.
