On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Dana wrote: > > But all in all I am with Judah. There are *real* issues out there. >
I feel *exactly* the same as you two too. I rambled across the below today, and although it talks a lot about problems, I like the pattern part. * * * Now those people who fly have a different point of view of the world from the people who spend their whole lives on the ground. Don Flanding wrote a poem once when he was flying, and he called his poem The Gods Eye View and he said it was so different from the view he always had on the ground, which he called The Bugs Eye View. Now I thought about that Bugs Eye View when I always over in Tehran in Persia. They told me an old persian legend; it was about a bug who spent his entire life in the worlds most beautifully designed persian rug. All the bug ever saw in his lifetime was his problems. They stood up all around him, he couldnt see over the top of them, and he had to fight his way through these tufts of wool, in the rug, to find some crumbs someone had spilled in the rug. And the tragedy of the story of the bug in the rug was this; that he lived and he died in the worlds most beaitufully designed rug, but he never once knew that he spent his life in something which had a pattern. Thats why I want to get you up in the air tonight, to see something the old bug couldnt see in the rug, because even he, this bug, if he had once got above the rug so that he could have seen all of it, he would have discovered something, that the very things he called his problems were a part of the pattern. Have you ever felt like that bug in the rug? That you are so surrounded with your problems that you cant see any pattern to the world in which you live? Have you heard anyone say lately that the world is a total mess? Thats the bugs eye view, and seeing only a little of it we ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:304328 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
