Everyone knows how strong a steel bar is, everyone has been hit by a drop of rain. I tell you this, there is a drop of rain out there powerful enough to shatter a steel bar. A drop of rain that finds the most infinite weakness in the steel bar, falling from 10,000 feet where it was birthed the rain drop will fall and fall until the steel is in just the right position for the drop to hit it just right, in that one spot, that only that drop of rain could hit. Then my friends, you will see, that bar of steel was just a weak thing being held together by its own strength, that it had great weakness all along, it just had to be unlocked. Then it is just to be judged, is it the saddest thing to see something so powerful brought down by something so small, or so amazing that something so small brought down something so strong, or maybe just a bit of both.
Wiliam Bochkay
THE TENT: Watson and Holmes Go Camping
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson went on a camping trip. After sharing a good meal and a bottle of Petrie wine, they retire to their tent for the night.
At about 3 AM, Holmes nudges Watson and asks, "Watson, look up into the sky and tell me what you see?"
Watson said, "I see millions of stars."
Holmes asks, "And, what does that tell you?"
Watson replies, "Astronomically, it tells me there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, it tells me that Saturn is in Leo. Theologically, it tells me that God is great and we are small and insignificant. Horologically, it tells me that it's about 3 AM. Meteorologically, it tells me that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. What does it tell you, Holmes?"
Holmes retorts, "Someone stole our tent."
I love this joke. It points out that sometimes things are just so freaking simple and if we can only do away with our desire to complicate them, we can see what is right in front of us, or what is missing...
