"We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. "
Mao Tse-Tung
“Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.” Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
“Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them”
Friday, December 07, 2007
Destressing Techniques
After a tough week, flower arranging is my "cable a tierra"... in my feeble ikebana-wannabe style (my short-lived ikebana course teacher once commented on one of my (I had hoped!) "ikebana" arrangements: "It ok, but it western. Come, everybody. I show you western way. It very easy!"...and so, culture creeps into everything...even when I was consciously trying to be ikebanaish...sigh...
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