Mind Blind (Holiday Edition)

The story of ordinary knowledge is the story of lags, gaps, and missing pieces.  In fact, if it’s NOT missing, it’s not worth knowing.

If it’s correctly noted that, “Local boy makes good,” the boy was much more than local.  The good, the success, does not follow if one is too local, too specialized.

I am disturbed by the similarity of the words, “mind’ and “blind.”

A man told his son: “Never write in a book unless YOU know more than the book…and if you do, why the hell are you bothering to read it in the first place?”

There was this guy who, in smug, apparent self-abasement, would periodically declare, “I’ve never looked at myself in the mirror!” And one listener, upon hearing this, rather than being impressed by the speaker’s humility thought, “Hell, the man’s just a coward.”

J.