The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

Author:Sharon Creech
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: HarperCollins

Today, more dolphins came and played in the bow waves. One of them jumped clear out of the water, right in front of the bow, as if to say, “Watch me! Wow!”

I was fixed on a mother-and-baby pair who swam in perfect synchronization, as if they were the same being.

“The baby’s like a replica of its mother,” Brian said, “just smaller, but with all its mother’s grace and speed—”

“Brian,” I said, “are you actually getting interested in these things?”

“Look,” he said. “It’s like she’s teaching it how to play,” and then he said, “Why do you think they trust us so much?”

And that’s exactly the feeling I had, that they instinctively trusted us, and really, it made me want to cry. It should have made me want to laugh, because it was as if they were inviting us to join them, be a part of their play. They seemed so overwhelmingly happy: playing, investigating, gliding and leaping and rolling. I don’t know why it made me want to cry. I just kept thinking that there they were and here I was. They didn’t have any burdens and they wanted to be with us, but I was way up on deck and I felt as if I weighed a ton.

Uncle Mo brought out his sketchpad and quickly, deftly, drew the dolphins leaping in the air. He said, “They remind you of being a child, with all that curiosity and energy. They remind you that this is what you could be, not what you should grow out of.” He looked around at me and Cody and Brian, as if he’d just realized we were there, and then turned back to his drawing, mumbling, “Or something like that.”

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