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This story begins in a large, beautiful forest that has humongous trees as far as the eye can see and beautiful mountains that were bigger than any mountain I have seen. This forest has crystal clear ponds and rivers that when you looked into these waters you could see your reflection. A lot of animals live in this forest and they could talk to each other as I'm talking to you right now. They had voices of their own and they all shared the forest there was no quarreling amongst them. But if there were they knew the king of the forest would banish them.

The King of the Forest was no animal nor was he human; the King was dressed in a fine robe with eyes that were as blue as the sky. When the King spoke everyone listened intently. His voice was like the sound of the ocean waves roaring splashing against rocks. This king had a kind and gentle heart for all of the animals and he has a heart for those who asked if they can come and live in the forest with him and the animals.

Does anyone remember that incredible old saying that we used to hear when we were growing up? The one that said, “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.” Of course our mothers would usually tell us that one when we would mouth off to them and we totally hated it BUT if you really think about it, it’s kinda great “rule”. Our mom’s knew what was up. They knew that if we could just keep our (mostly rude) opinions to ourselves we wouldn’t end up hurting anyone’s feelings and in turn, wouldn’t feel bad about what we said. It’s a win-win. Sometimes I wish we still had our mothers follow us around every day so when we go to freely give someone our opinion, or tweet something rude to someone, or rudely blog about someone we don’t even know, that our sweet mothers could be there and say, right before we hit that send button, “Now remember, if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all….