#MythologyMonday #TheUglyDuckling
Amid a brood of fluffy yellow ducklings, one emerges gray and gangly, a surprise #Adoption from a swan's egg slipped into the nest.
Mocked and pecked as the "ugly" outcast , he is raised by a mother duck who who is kind
Fleeing the pond's cruelty, he endures winter's bite in a frozen wild . Come spring, he spies graceful #Swans gliding like silk on water . Daring a gaze, the "duckling" beholds his reflection: no ugly fowl, but a majestic swan reborn 🦢