Friday, January 30, 2015

Back to the Future

"Mother, what is water?" asked the baby fish of the mother fish.
"Water is what you swim in. Water is what you're mostly made of." 
"But where is it?"
"All around you." 
"But I can't see it," said the baby.
"Of course you can."
"Where?"
"Everywhere."
"And I'm made of water?"
"Mostly." 
"And after I die..?"
"You go back to being water," said the mother. 


Saturday, January 3, 2015

Dedication

A gifted young painter of extraordinary talent had been apprenticed to a renowned painter, who when he recognized the boy's gifts became intensely jealous.
"No, that is not the way to do it!" he would shout. "You will do better painting houses than pictures." 
Slowly the boy's confidence ebbed. No matter how hard he tried, the painter found fault and humiliated the boy in front of the other students. 
One day the painting assignment was goldfish. The boy closed his eyes and called up a splendid fat fish from his uncle's pond. 
This he painted. 
"No. No. No!" screamed the teacher and threw the boy's picture into the water, where to everyone's amazement the painted fish proceeded to swim away.