I. Other-Centered (1-13)
II. Courageous (14-26)
III. Judicious (weeks 27-39)
IV. Resourceful (40-52)
Week 28
Not All Is As ItSeems
1. Come pre-fall, my friend tells methe crickets will begin singing in the daylight hours—even when the sun is highin the sky.
2.The paper on which she writes this very day marks the latest anniversary ofcivilization's birth.
3.How glorious to let the morning say itself.
4.Breakthroughs are ooze-throughs. All significant accomplishment isintergenerational.
5.Beware those missed times of saving grace when you refused to step back.
6. Present a yielding will. Then youwill be meek and inherit the earth.
7. My thumbnail is like a tinymirror when I give the high sign. Do I really mean it?
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| Photograph by Cher Cox |
Egg
Think ofthe common egg.
How simplecan you get?
Nothingcomplicated
about itsshape.
Cook orbake it any number
of wayseasily.
Store iteffortlessly chilled
and it’sgood for almost a month.
Exceed that,though,
and youhave a stench.
Drop itjust a few inches
to a hardsurface and
you have amess.
Place it inthe palm of your hand,
wrap yourfingers and thumb
around itcompletely,
making suretheir tips
can’t curlin to puncture it,
and you’llfind, even strong as
Hercules,you won’t
be able tocrush this fragile
treasure.
PhilosopherAlfred North Whitehead
said,“Seek simplicity and distrust it.”
Perhaps
hewas thinking
aboutan egg.
Copyright© 2011 by Allan Cox, Allan Cox &Associates, Inc.
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