I’ve noticed a disturbing trend among some Whimsies, which has bothered me for a while, and at last I feel compelled to say something about it. Most of the time, most Whimsies keep their eyes open when they have their picture taken. But every now and then, I see a Whimsie who insists on closing her eyes when her picture is taken.
Why? Why? I don’t understand this. We Whimsies have such big beautiful eyes, why wouldn’t we want to show them off? What good can possibly come from keeping our eyes closed? With closed eyes, you just look like you’re sleeping. And who wants to sleep, when there are so many beautiful things to see in the world?
Now, I admit, I sleep every night, and when I’m sleeping I close my eyes. But that’s probably the only time! (Well…that, and if I happen to be watching a movie or show and a dog or wolf unexpectedly shows up…) But I certainly wouldn’t close my eyes if I knew someone was taking my picture! I would no sooner close my eyes than frown.
And that, at least, is one good thing you can say about these Whimsies with the closed eyes— at least they keep smiling. But it makes you wonder…Maybe they are asleep? Maybe they’re having a pleasant dream?
These are my thoughts about closed-eye Whimsies. A mystery to me. But wait! The plot thickens!
I told Trixie and Tillie that I was planning to write about this, and they both said they have also seen the close-eyed Whimsies. But while Tillie is just as baffled as me, Trixie had some insight to lend which makes the whole issue….well…really disturbing.
As you know, Trixie has been in more Hoards than Tillie and me, so she’s had plenty of opportunity to meet a lot more Whimsies than either of us ever have. And Trixie tells us that she’s known some of these close-eyed Whimsies and…and I actually have it all wrong! These Whimsies don’t close their eyes simply when their picture is being taken! Oh, no! These Whimsies walk around ALL THE TIME with their eyes closed!
What??
Now I really don’t understand.
I asked Trixie what these Whimsies are like, and she said they are fine, friendly Whimsies, just like the rest of us, but it’s a bit uncomfortable talking to them, because you can never make eye contact. 
So sometimes you don’t know if they’re really listening to you. But then they’ll answer you, most pleasantly, and you realize everything is fine.
So I asked Trixie if she ever asked one of them why she keeps her eyes closed all the time, and Trixie said yes, once she did. She asked one Whimsie. And what was the answer? Nothing really concrete. The close-eyed Whimsie just giggled and said, “Oh, that’s just the way I am.”
Very disconcerting. And unsatisfactory…
So many questions spinning in my head! Can they see? Do they sleep? Why do they do it? And most disturbing of all, but you really have to wonder…do they have eyes at all??
I don’t know.
Well, anyway, these are my thoughts about the close-eyed Whimsies. Some of them are very pretty—like this one here in red and white, doesn’t she look French somehow? And how about this one all bundled up in blue, with that curly hair escaping from her hood? How adorable!
But I think they would all be so much prettier, and so much more adorable if they would just OPEN THEIR EYES!!
Don’t you think so too?
kind of clothes to fit in. We don’t have as much blue in our wardrobe as you might think we do! Part of that might be because we wear size “NB,” which of course for us means “Never Bigger,” but this size is also worn by babies, and of course, if little boy babies are wearing NB clothes, those clothes tend to have a decidedly masculine flair about them, like pictures of trucks, and dogs, and baseballs, and collars and buttons and pockets, which just don’t look right on us Whimsie girls. So, yes, not too much blue in our wardrobe.
You’ll notice also that I am still wearing the shoes. Sigh… I love our shoes. I hate to give them up. But truth be told, soon it will be so warm in Whimsieville that nobody will want to wear shoes. We’ll all look forward to going barefoot through the green, green grass, as we take our dinosaurs on their daily walk! Not too long ago we announced that Spring has sprung, but amazingly, it will soon enough be Summer!
Last week, Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD stunned the Whimsies into utter speechlessness, but this week they made up for it with spirited conversation. I was glad to hear that most of their comments were upbeat, though they did drift into an occasional moment of despair. Their talk went on for way too long for me to present the entire discussion, but here are some of the highlights.
As we’ve been mentioning for a couple of weeks now, Spring is beginning to spring around here, and with that we’ve been getting a lot of rain in Whimsieville, and with that, the grass has been growing quite a bit. And it’s growing GREEN, which is such a delight to see, after months and months of dry, dead brown grass. 
But gratefully, due to the early hour, there was not much activity on that front.
First, I want to apologize for myself and my fellow Whimsies, for not having a Round Table Discussion the other day, after the latest SHIELD episode. We were so blown away by what happened, we didn’t know what to say, never mind what to think or feel! Even now, a few days later, we are doing better, but we are still reeling from these developments. To tell you the truth, we’re a little bit afraid to watch the next show. No idea what will happen this coming Tuesday.
