Wednesday, November 13, 2024

 

OPINION - WISDOM

BY DONOVAN BALDWIN

Although I often rail at trying to encapsulate "wisdom" into a single image, cogent aphorism, or peppy, pompom-shaking combination of the two, I, like everyone else, sometimes like my "wisdom" and "escape" from reality, in bite-size servings.
Other weird, "small" things I like, are titles, and quotes... short ones that evoke a thought, an image, an entire story with just a few words. In California, there is a road named "7th Standard". Now, isn't that just a title of a Jason Bourne tale waiting for a story to be written?
Another small treasure of mine is the title of a Robert Heinlein story, "The Door Into Summer". The narrator's cat, Pete, regularly seeks to have the same door opened to go outside, yet, if it's cold, or raining, he doesn't want to go out. But, if the door is opened, and the sun is shining, he's happy to go through THAT door.
So, although he goes to the same door time after time throughout the year, he's waiting for the door that opens into summer.
Aren't we a lot like that at times?
We encapsulate our "wisdom" into small bites, and, instead of combining and extending that wisdom, and learning how to make summer wherever we are, we often just keep thinking the same small thoughts, and opening the same doors, hoping our season has finally arrived.

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