A Peacock in the Land of Penguins: A Fable about Creativity & Courage

so

the

penguins

and

the

peacock

agreed.

He

would join them,

and

together

they

would

achieve

great things.

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And

At

first

everyone

was

delighted.

The

penguins were pleased

and

impressed

with their

new

recruit.

He

stood

out

from

the

crowd

in

the way he

sparkled

and

displayed

flashes of

color

every

now and

then.

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And

Perry

was

pleased, too,

with

the

novelty

and

the

newness.

He

was

impressed

by

the

penguins

—

they

looked

so

important

in

their black

and

white suits,

especially

when they gathered together

for

meetings

and

company events.

Their

formality

and

manners

were

so

different

from

anything

he had

ever seen

or

experienced

before.

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N

ow

the

peacock

was

careful

in

the

beginning

not to

display

too

much

of his

colorful

nature.

You

see, some friends

in his own

land

had

warned Perry about penguins

They

had

cautioned

him

about

the

rules

and

the

style

with which

the

penguins

governed

their

land.

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So

he

kept

his

feathers

folded

up

much

of the

time,

and

would only occasionally

flash

them open

to

dazzle

the

penguins

with

the

full

range

of his

talent

and

color.

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