This is the picture:
Yesterday I opened a bag of baby arugula. As I shook some of the leaves from the bag into a bowl, one small, peachskin-rosy rose petal tumbled out.
I was very happy.
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----Howard Gardner, from The Disciplined Mind, published in 1999
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7 comments:
Nature is smiling at you!
:-)!
I was thinking about why you tagged this "Jokes" - Coming here is like having my own koan mechanism. I come. I think. I respond. I rethink!
Gee, I only wish something magical like that would happen to me. Wait! Something did: I found a crumpled-up dollar bill as I was walking into a sushi restaurant this afternoon with my daughter. Does that count?
My little epiphany was noticing that the caterpillars are large this year. This may make for bigger butterflies...or fatter robins.
And thinner plants!
Dear esoterica, welcome. I've yet to see a caterpillar since last year! Fatter robins, thinner plants: what import would this have for the butterfly effect, I wonder?
Artist, I've labelled this post as a joke, because the event was just such a dissonance to me in a pleasant fashion, and it made me laugh. What were your thoughts?
Dear Too Many, of course it counts. Please do be certain that you keep your AlphaSmart with you at all times. One never does know when one would wish to write and record something for posterity.
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