November 2011 Darts

Millpond Dart:  Since some are into chickens and will understand this, a colleague of mine asked me recently why the chicken crossed the road.  “To get to the other side,” I asked while offering up the traditional answer.  She said, “No.  The chicken had been hurt by a remark a rooster had made to her in the hen house about her low weight and egg production.  She crossed over looking for a soft shoulder to cry on.”

Millpond dart:  I knew a man once who thought he had befriended time and time was on his side.  Boy was he ticked off!

Millpond Dart:  Take a moment to stop and smell the roses…even if the potpourri has turned to compost…it could at least jump start the olefactory…or have we outsourced those factories too to China?

Millpond Dart:  (excerpt from early draft, Heritage Crossing).  If life began by fiat (command), then that was the thing done or performed.  Nothing short of personally standing in the darkness at the dawn of man and hearing the command “Let there be light” and then to watch the universe unfold would suffice.  If life evolved, the same is true, except that we’d be standing for a much longer time… billions and billions of years watching for something to rise out of the primordial goop, reach out its tiny little arms and say “momma.”  Sorry, Grandpa was inclined to accept creationism as fact and evolution as opinion.  On the lighter side, he accepted creationism as fact if only because his feet tended to hurt when he had to stand for long periods of time, and he didn’t think the development of a bunion proved evolution.

Millpond Dart:   When people talk in circles, it’s appropriate to respond, O, and say nothing more.