Multi-tasking is less like keeping three balls in the air and more just paying attention to the two or three tasks at hand.
Don’t throw the baby out: easy.
Don’t make coffee with the bath water: less easy.
If I'm going to cherry-pick Ecclesiastes, let this be a time to heal, a time to embrace and to love, a time of peace.
I look at a galaxy 30,000 light years away and say wow!
In 30,000 years someone there will look back at us and say wow!
It's a pity we can never meet.
Burning the candle at both ends gives twice the light, but there will be a mess of melted wax. And scorched fingers in the end.
Behind every great man stands a woman, the saying goes.
Not to mention all the men who are nudged away from a life in the gutter.
Though we may be far along the road to salvation, it’s well to remember that at some earlier stage it was the road to perdition.
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs seems innocuous enough, but fails to mention the need for those higher up to pour boiling oil on the heads of those below them.
Refusing to live in a certain place because the residents there voted for someone you don’t like is not exactly cutting your nose off. It’s more of a paring.
Telling someone to use their own judgement leaves yourself at risk for dissatisfaction.
The anchor is the traditional sign of hope, though not to the drowning person.
teapot here. On a plane to Boston. No computer. Love the way each of these folds into the initial idea and then - pouf - a new shape! Each a unique kind of pasta.
ReplyDeleteFav of the day: Behind every great man stands a woman, the saying goes.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention all the men who are nudged away from a life in the gutter.
Comment: I would add that the gender-reversal is also sometimes true. Then again, think of the Garden of Eden where neither gender wins, but the serpent does. Are both genders doomed to error? On another note, your squibs continue to be more and more serious and philosophical. I'd be interested to know if this is on purpose.