Hey,
Cori here.
Let's do a bedtime story,
Shall we?
Together,
Me and you,
So you can see me.
Okay,
Are you ready to meditate with Cori?
If you are,
Climb up into your bed and get super,
Super comfortable.
Make sure that you're wearing your cozy,
Comfy pajamas and all is well in the world so that you can relax your body and let go of your busy,
Busy day,
Right?
Okay,
So now that you're in bed and you're all snuggly and comfortable,
We're going to talk about Jack.
Jack and his magical paints.
He was in the bathtub.
It took to having a bath in his swimming shorts.
Don't know why.
Maybe it was the age.
Maybe it was just a thing he was going through,
But he got his favorite shorts on and on one of the sides of the legs of the shorts was a shark.
It was inspiration.
Jack was going to use his magical paints to paint a shark on the side of the bathtub.
Now,
If you've not heard any of Jack's stories before,
Jack has magical paints and in his bathroom is this big,
White,
Plastic kind of surround in the bathtub.
Like most people,
You know,
When you're in the shower and you've got that thing that surrounds you.
Well,
Jack normally uses his paints and he paints on the side of the bathtub.
And then what happens is magically,
Whatever he paints comes off the side of the bathtub and is alive.
It's physically real.
For maybe 30 seconds,
Maybe two minutes,
Maybe three minutes,
Sometimes maybe for a long time.
Jack never knows.
And then what happens is the paints and the picture and everything else just drop into the bathtub and disappear as if it never,
Ever happened.
Jack's magical paints are pretty freaking magical.
Let's just say that.
Today,
He was going to paint a shark.
Now,
Jack was quite brave.
He'd painted sharks before.
He painted all sorts of stuff that had come real.
The shark one was a little bit scary.
But this time he was going to paint the shark and he had an idea.
What if first he painted a boat that he was in?
So when the shark actually came alive,
It didn't just come out and bite him.
He was in a boat.
Jack was getting quite smart.
So the first thing he did was he didn't paint the shark first.
Of course not.
That would be crazy.
He painted his boat,
His fishing boat.
It was a good fishing boat.
It was quite big.
It was made of wood,
But it had a sail.
It wasn't that small that it was just oars,
You know,
Where you have to row the boat.
It wasn't that small because if this was going to be a decent sized shark,
He didn't want the shark to be able to bite into the boat like Jaws,
The movie.
So he painted a boat that was quite big,
Big enough for like maybe three,
Five people.
And the boat had one of those motors on the back.
It was quite a fast boat in case he needed to escape.
And he took his time painting it methodically,
All the little details,
The grains of the wood,
Everything.
And then he wanted it to be a nice day.
So he painted the clouds,
He painted the sun,
He painted some birds in the sky.
And then he wanted the ocean to be pretty.
So he painted the ocean in like a crystal clear blue color with little tiny ripples and waves.
He was really,
Really paying attention because if his magical paints did what they always did,
He wanted it to be perfect.
And then he started to paint the shark.
It was a great white.
He thought about painting a hammerhead shark because he really liked those.
But he was like,
No,
I'm going to do the great white,
The scariest to me.
And I'm going to paint it with lots and lots of rows of teeth,
Lots of teeth.
He took his time on the teeth.
And the shark had its mouth open and its head was out of the water as if it was diving into the sky for something.
Maybe it was diving up and out of the water into the sky for Jack.
But Jack felt okay about that because he got his boat.
So he wasn't too worried about it.
But he wanted the shark to be scary enough for the experience because he wanted the experience to feel as real as possible.
And if the shark was only tiny,
It wouldn't have been as impressive.
The shark was a lovely,
Shiny gray,
Bluish gray.
And he paid a lot attention to the black face on the shark.
He did them that good that it was one of those where if you move,
It looked like the shark was following you.
And then he painted the slightest little bit of pink in the gums around the layers and layers of sparkly,
White,
Shiny,
Pointed teeth.
The shark's eyeballs,
The shark's teeth,
The shark's grin,
Everything came off the wall as real as real could be.
Jack swallowed,
Like the biggest swallow,
Like,
Oh gosh,
What have I just done?
He saw himself in the boat,
But Jack forgot to paint himself in the boat.
So there was a boat,
There was a shark,
And there was Jack,
As if he was just hovering right there with them,
With no protection,
No safety in the boat.
Jack's mouth got as big as the shark's.
The shark turned towards Jack,
Completely ignoring the boat,
And started to move even higher and closer.
Oh,
It's Jack.
Jack didn't know what to do.
He froze.
Oh,
Mom,
Came out of Jack's mouth.
And just as Mom came out of Jack's mouth,
The paint smacked him in the face and slid down his body.
The greys,
The browns,
The blues,
All the different colours slid down him as if it'd been mud-pied in the face.
Jack took the biggest breath,
As if to say,
Oh my gosh,
That was close.
Jack's mom came running in the bathtub.
Well,
She ran in the bathroom,
Towards the bathtub.
And she said,
Jack,
Are you okay?
And Jack said,
Oh yeah,
Yeah,
I'm all right,
Mom.
False alarm.
His mom said,
Jack,
Why are you painting yourself?
I thought you were going to paint the bathtub.
Jack's mom knew that he painted the bathtub,
Because Jack always cleaned it up afterwards.
She didn't mind,
But she didn't know that his paints came to real life.
Jack said,
Uh,
Just try something new.
I'm going to swim it off.
See how long it takes me.
Jack started to swim off all the paints.
And the bathtub was grey and yucky and brownish looking.
Once the colours were all mixed together,
It was pretty bad.
But he was happy.
His shark was so realistic.
His boat was really good.
Next time,
He needed to remember to paint himself in the boat so that he would be completely safe.
And then if the magic lasted longer,
Well,
Then maybe Jack could make friends with a shark.
You never know.
Right?
Okay,
My little petal,
Make sure that you fall to sleep and you get a good night's sleep.
And you know that I love you and I care about you.
And you're the best.
