myth for catherine's moss

Stay still, don’t walk around even though that’s all your body wants to do. Let it still for a moment. Find some sun and settle there. I have a story to tell you. If you are very quiet - very slow in your being the story may approach your hand. It may sniff on you and it may even climb into your palm. But it won’t do that if you don’t listen first.  

There was a creature of the water who made a bet with the sun. They said they could bring water wherever they went. At that time water lived in the ocean, and the occasional lake and stream. But this creature believed they could live outside of the water and still be it. That made the sun laughed. The sun decides what happens on the land. It even decides what happens in the water - up to a certain point. So the creature started their journey through the world. At first it was quite magnificent to see the way the creature made forests and other beings out of the water with it. It made rivers that ran over fields and waves that crashed against trees.

The animals and plants were awe inspired by the new movements of the water. Many of them of them had never even seen water before because water and land were so separate. The trees loved splashes from waves. The birds, and pollen, and insects loved dancing the the rivers in the sky. It looked like the creature was going to win the bet. They made fountains of mountains. They made tiny flowers of ice all over the arctic. The sun was furious and sent lightning to the water but the water only lit up in magnificent displays, and then brought terrible fires. The sun roared and the water only trembled and shook. Some of it got stuck deep in the earth. But then the sun did something no one expected. It made a rainbow which brought up with it much of the water. The sun then wove the creature into the soil. But the sun could never entirely bring the water back to the ocean. This is why we have clouds now. It’s why we have glaciers and streams. The water from under the earth stayed there and made bogs. And when you look at the sun in just the right way, you’ll still see the rainbow. And the water thanks the creature so much, there is always a layer of water over Catherine’s moss, you can the water there because the leaves ripple as if you’re looking at it above a constant stream.

Look now, do you see things a little differently? You have moss in your eyes.