Welcome to a new series I am starting called Marx the Rabbit stories featuring my own illustrations and original stories. In each new story your friend @marxrab will go on a new adventure and will learn many lessons along the way. All photos/illustrations are my own and created specifically to illustrate the featured story. Each story is designed to be like a children's book in steemit article form. Hopefully my tales will be great for all ages and fun to read.

The Rabbit Who Wanted To Play The Piano

It was a bright and sunny Christmas morning when Marx the rabbit woke up to find a piano under the Christmas tree. Marx was so excited to find that Santa Claus had left her such a lovely gift! The little bunny loved music and wanted to play the piano. She had never used one before and had no idea how to play. Checking out her new gift, Marx realized with her tiny rabbit body she couldn't reach the keys to test her piano out.

After some exploring, Marx found a small piano bench hidden behind the Christmas tree. Pushing it in front of the piano, Marx sat down to play. Unfortunately, Marx was still too small to reach the keys!

After searching her home, Marx found a stack of books to put on top of the piano bench. The books gave the bunny the boost she needed to start playing music. Marx didn't know anything about playing the piano other than where to find middle "C." Hitting the key over and over, the small bunny wondered how she was going to learn to play. She didn't have fingers! She only had two beautiful white paws...

Marx felt very discouraged. Bunnies weren't built to play the piano like humans. Her paws were so big she hit two keys at once and messed up her songs. Hoping onto of the keyboard, Marx tried to use all four paws to play. This technique didn't work and the bunny felt sad. How could a bunny play piano?

Marx decided to think about it. Climbing on top of the piano she contemplated about her delima....

And then she moved to a different spot to think some more...

And then she moved to yet another spot to get inspiration.

Finally Marx had enough thinking. She didn't care that she only had paws! She was going to play piano! The rabbit looked down at the keys and was determined to play beautiful music with them.

Everyday the rabbit practiced and practiced and practiced. Her bunny paws learned ways of hitting the keys to play the correct notes. Even though she didn't have human fingers, Marx figured out how to use her paws to play the music she loved so much.

Pretty soon Marx was playing music with ease. She loved her piano so much and she was so proud she didn't give up learning to play.

THE END

Moral to the story: Sometimes in life you may want to achieve a goal but reaching it may be difficult. Even though Marx is a rabbit, she tried her hardest to learn to play the piano. Having paws instead of hands with fingers made learning an instrument very difficult. Marx tried and tried and finally learned a way to play music one key at a time. You can learn a lot from this little rabbit. Goals aren't easy to reach. Sometimes challenges can slow you down but if you work hard, you can find a way to get past any issues you many have to achieve your goals.

Authors Note: Let me know what you think about Marx the rabbit stories and if you enjoyed it enough that I should write more. The illustrations take some time to make (photos edited to look like drawings) so I'd love to know if others found my story entertaining enough to continue.

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