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Bears... and Buffy
Jun. 9th, 2004 07:57 am
Rob is sitting here watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I don't really watch the show, but I don't have a choice when it comes to listening to it running behind my back here... sometimes they come up w/some interesting one-liners. The classic for today is from Willow - someone interrupted her spell: "I'll have to start all over again! Hecate hates that!"
Read 'Illusions: Lessons of a Reluctant Messiah" by Richard Bach again. It makes a good bathtub read. Things like "We teach what we most need to learn and we learn what we already know" keep popping up in my life, over & over again. "Argue strongly enough for your limitations, and they'll be yours"... I could go on, but then I'd be re-writing what is already a perfect tale, & that's kind of senseless.
A word about Bears. If you are ever lost and alone somewhere that there are bears, you can basically eat whatever they eat. Bears have an incredible sense of smell, better than almost any dog except possibly the famed bloodhound. Anyway, bears can always smell something good to eat - a seal under the ice, clams buried deep in wet sand, seaweeds, moss, tiny barnacles, a kill still being fought over by wolves, a fawn hidden in a mound of decaying leaves. Follow a bear if you're hungry & it'll show you what's on the menu. And a bear will normally turn down anything that doesn't smell edible.
But remember something - things start to smell really good when you're starving, even things that aren't good for you.
Humans are bear-like in another fashion - we'll keep eating even after we're full.
Read 'Illusions: Lessons of a Reluctant Messiah" by Richard Bach again. It makes a good bathtub read. Things like "We teach what we most need to learn and we learn what we already know" keep popping up in my life, over & over again. "Argue strongly enough for your limitations, and they'll be yours"... I could go on, but then I'd be re-writing what is already a perfect tale, & that's kind of senseless.
A word about Bears. If you are ever lost and alone somewhere that there are bears, you can basically eat whatever they eat. Bears have an incredible sense of smell, better than almost any dog except possibly the famed bloodhound. Anyway, bears can always smell something good to eat - a seal under the ice, clams buried deep in wet sand, seaweeds, moss, tiny barnacles, a kill still being fought over by wolves, a fawn hidden in a mound of decaying leaves. Follow a bear if you're hungry & it'll show you what's on the menu. And a bear will normally turn down anything that doesn't smell edible.
But remember something - things start to smell really good when you're starving, even things that aren't good for you.
Humans are bear-like in another fashion - we'll keep eating even after we're full.
