Restored!

Wow... time in nature... What a miracle cure.

(What's a miracle cure?

Well, a regular cure might be antibiotics and bedrest.

A miracle cure would be pickles - or time in nature - or your grandma's chicken soup.)

I am restored.

What's restored?

Well, let's start with store.

Store is a verb and a noun.

Store means to keep or hold something.

Some people store a lot of stuff in their garage, for example.

Do you know anyone like that? ;-)

Sometimes other people in their family get upset with these people.

"Get a storage locker!" they tell them.

"Put all this stuff in storage!"

So they haul their CDs and their books and the clothes that don't fit anymore and that wonderful trophy they won in the sixth grade and a lot of other stuff and store it in a storage locker.

Then they go to the store and buy more stuff! ;-))

We can buy stuff from a store because the store holds a lot of stuff that is for sale.

If we spend a lot of time buying and selling things, storing and moving things, worrying and arguing about things, we get tired.

Then we need a vacation.

What's a vacation?

What's vacate?

Vacate means empty.

So we go on a vacation. We go somewhere else. Sometimes we bring a lot of stuff with us. Sometimes we don't. We go to Disneyland or Hawaii or St. Petersburg or Pt. Reyes and we empty out. All our troubles and worries fall out of our brains. All the stuff that we argue about falls right out of our head.

And we feel restored.

Hmmm...

Restored with what, exactly?