NAPKIN WORDS #37 2010
1. AGE
When the electronic age, with all its wonders,
causes you to ponder deeply at the wonder
at hand.
It is difficult this wonder, which you don’t
know how to use, can’t comprehend, then
watch, as your 4-year-old grandchild makes
it perform its marvels, knows its miracles.
2. OCCURENCE
Every powerful idea or thought began small
and grew only because it was larger than when
first thought.
The question then becomes how that thought
arose to be considered powerful. What trail
did it leave that made if different, recognized
by others?
3. AGING
Life wondrously begins when you first start to
climb out of the valley of comfort, family, times
of youth!
4. ANYONE CAN GO PLACES AND BE LOST
Yet the wise study the maps and the winds to
understand those places of comfort which they
have discovered!
5. FOR A PROPOSITION TO GROW
Every powerful concept that changed
history, began first as a small idea.
Once the idea was there, its originator
pondered mightily, and so it grew into a
powerful thought!
6. MAKING IT BETTER
Imagine that the world we know can change
with but the addition of a word,
So that with bravery, we write that word to
insure that the world will change!
6. UNEXPECTEDLY
Does anyone beside me find that the craziest,
yet ultimate truth of life, is how sane it is.
That it is, when we know it should not be so,
that is the magic of its surprise!
7. THOSE THREE TIMES
The time you pray.
The time you beg.
The time you surrender!
8. WARS
That which follows when politicians explain their
good intentions!
9. GROWING AND GIVING SOMETHIN UP
Only when we willingly surrender the tribal I, can
we at last become the community of we!
10. A NEW YORK CITY NEIGHBOR
I can’t say that I knew him, though I passed
him every now and then, he going his way,
me going mine.
I can’t say that I ever heard loud noises, though
his place was right next to mine. No loud
music, no strange bumps in the night, no
metallic keys grinding against locks.
He was the perfect neighbor for twenty years
until he made the only disturbance which I ever
heard. The Emergency Medical Technicians were
wheeling him towards the elevator, down the
hall, when I opened my door to understand
what was happening.
He never recovered. He never came back.
A New York City sadness where so many are
forced to say “I can’t say that I knew him
well”!
CHANCE
None gamble more
than parents to be.
None learn more of
wagering than when
rearing a child.
What wondrous odds
are generations,
tossed by those who
took a chance.
by Edward Hunter