The Slow Healing Process

The road back to normal can be long and windy--full of bumps and detours. It's never as easy as we hope to climb back to how things used to be. That's the lesson all of us here in my office are learning. We all celebrated when Red Fez came home after his sudden departure. We welcomed him back with open arms. We were happy our prodigal monkey was back.

But it hasn't all been that easy. Red Fez has come back with some new ideas, painful experiences and bad habits to work through. For instance, one of the other fez monkeys (Blue? Yellow?) caught this on film this week:

While in New York, living the fancy high fashion life, Red Fez picked up a smoking habit. And while there's little funnier than a smoking monkey, I'm trying not to encourage it. There are worse vices than somking for a monkey, but I guess things were at a dangerous level. Frankly, Red Fez just couldn't quite get the hang of the whole process of lighting the cigarette.

Here's the picture that most frightened all of us:

Poor guy's gonna lose his eyebrows.

The other Fez Monkeys have staged an intervention and I think we're all making progress on this slow road to recovery.