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Right time and place?
A mother and a baby camel were lying around under a tree.
Then the baby camel asked, “Why do camels have humps?”
The mother camel considered this and said, “We are desert animals so we have the humps to store water so we can survive with very little water.”
The baby camel thought for a moment and then said, “Okay…why are our legs long and our feet rounded?”
The mama replied, “They are meant for walking in the desert.”
The baby paused. After a beat, the camel asked, “Why are our eyelashes long” Sometimes they get in my way.”
The mama responded, “Those long thick eyelashes protect your eyes from the desert sand when it blows in the wind.”
The baby thought and thought. Then he said, “I see. So the hump is to store water when we are in the desert, the legs are for walking through the desert and these eyelashes protect my eyes from the desert. Then why are we in the Zoo??
The Lesson: Skills and abilities are only useful if you are in the right place at the right time. Otherwise they go to waste.
as told by Raghunath Jayappa
So what is YOUR right place and time
to use YOUR skills and abilities?
And what will you DO to get yourself there?
Are you a tumbleweed or a redwood?
Do you know what makes a tumbleweed so susceptible to the wind? It only puts down one root, and that root is very shallow. So, it is easily uprooted when the wind blows, going wherever the wind pushes it without any sense of direction or stability. Are there any “tumbleweeds” in your life? Could it […]
A short Zen tale plus a PS
Words matter, even when they are few! A man joined a monastery in which the monks were allowed to speak only two words every seven years. After the first seven years had passed, the new initiate met with the abbot who asked him, “Well, what are your two words?” “Food’s bad,” replied the man, who […]
The rules for being human
You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period of this time around. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called Life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity […]
Emptiness can be a good thing
Does your fuel tank ever run empty? Is your life filled with places to go, things to do, people to see, goals to achieve..? Are you cramming your schedule, home, head and belly until they are too full? Do you chronically over schedule yourself? If everything is too full, you need to let there be […]
Angels as explained by children
As they say…”No one says it better than a child” and here’s what some of them have said! I only know the names of two angels, Hark and Harold. Gregory, age 5 Everybody’s got it all wrong. Angels don’t wear halos anymore. I forget why, but scientists are working on it. Olive, age 9 All […]
The buzzard, bat, bumblebee and us
Though I can’t vouch for the truth of the animal’s behavior, I love the message in this short story shared in a friend’s email! THE BUZZARD If you put a buzzard in a pen that is 6 feet by 8 feet and is entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of its ability […]
Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk Day
Who knew?! I didn’t! Today, February 11th, is a holiday based on our English language idiom crying over spilled milk, which means to be upset over something that cannot be undone. I don’t know about you, but I think I need this. We all need a little reminder sometimes-to take a deep breath, clean up […]
2 things I know about you and me…
ONE: You are capable of more than you think. TWO: AND it will take more work than you think. I know the first one because this has been true of everyone I’ve ever met. (And it’s true of me too!) We are the worst judges of what we are capable of and each of us has another gear, a […]
Recognize this song?
There’s some great life lessons everywhere we look! I bet you can guess what childhood song all these” lessons” refer to! Wayne Dyer used the childhood song “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” to emphasize that we should… ROW…take some action, don’t just think about […]