The rest of us were boarding the minivan for the quick run home from grandma's Friday night.
But not Ashlyn.
She had a song to sing. And with a song, a dance.
She wiggled her way around the Odyssey at least enough times for its gray walls to come a tumblin' down, singing,
"The BARE necessities. Don't forget your worries and your strike!"
Around the rear bumper she sped, half-running, half-boogying, throwing the full weight of her little chest into the emphasis on "BARE." Almost colliding with the front fender, the modified lyric from The Jungle Book came back like a Zen mantra, over and over with each lap around the vehicle. "The BEAR necessities. Don't forget your worries and your strike!"
Her literal wording may have upset Walt Disney's original message. But her performance--free of cares beyond the moment, true to life's essentials of song, dance, passion and childlike power--clearly captured what Baloo was trying to tell Mowgli.
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