NAPKIN WORDS #22 2011

1. LIFE UPON THE UNKNOWN ROAD
When the dares you accept, become the
adventures which you wanted, then had,
they will always be remembered.

Only then does that road in your life become
known!

2. MODERN EDUCATION USA
It insures that all should be able to read.

It never seems to be concerned that what is
being read, is understood.

Such is its failure!

3. LISTENING
Nearby, strangers were talking about the
taking of risk, and in the news were naked
facts....a thousand blackbirds fell from the
sky.

Like so much of risk, none knew why!

4. PUBLIC SERVICE IN MANY COUNTRIES
I don’t think the race is between the tortoise
and the hare, even though that is how the
classic fable, as written by Aesop, has always
been told.
After many years of thinking about this
subject in relationship to human endeavors,
in the public workforce of many countries,
I am now of the opinion that the race is more
of the ant against the sloth. With the sloth
employee most often proving to be the winner,
when working in the public sector of a city, a
state or a government, in many places around
the globe.

I can say this as a truth, for I have lived in many
places around this wondrous globe.

One either finds a person that does something
swiftly all of the time, or finds one who does
nothing, almost all of the time.

Now ask yourself this: Have you not often
found that it is almost always the sloth worker
who ends up working right in front of you,
when the time arrives that you have need to
approach the employee who is representing
their city, their state, their government? Even
worse, have you not imagined that the sloth
appearing in front of you must have used
cloying words, instead of hard work, to obtain
approval from their boss, or how else could
they have reached their exalted position rep-
resenting that city, state or government?

How come the hard working ant worker is
never in front, facing you? How come they
appear to never get a promotion, working
almost always in the background, never to
be given their due?

That is why I say, that in the public workplace,
the race is between the ant and the sloth, and what
I also believe to be true, the race must most often
be because of that ancient term: called “The
Fix! ”

INVENTIONS

As I advance towards finite rims of my
existence, I learn that only two
machines, created by invention,
will always be used to precisely
describe how we lived.

First, is the leaf blower. For it does
the very same deed most humans
do:
it pushes away all that is near.

Second, is the vacuum cleaner. It
replicates that from birth, creation
sucks all of us in.
Does not try to distinguish what,
why or who.
If it is, it will be captured in great
carpet sweeps of our history.


by Edward Hunter