What is a bug to you is the center of the universe to the bug.
From A World Worth Saving, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
A man on the bench by the library spent four minutes trying to kill a wasp with a rolled newspaper and missed every time. The wasp was doing figure eights around his coffee lid, which from where I sat looked less like malice and more like devotion. I used to side with the man; I have eaten enough insects to know which end of that arrangement I am on. But what is a bug to you is the center of the universe to the bug, and the coffee was the only sweet thing for a block in any direction. He gave up and moved to the other end of the bench. The wasp stayed with the cup, and I stayed in the ash tree, and none of us had any idea what the others thought the morning was for.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
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- When rough bark can beget tender shoot, where may life not make a fresh start?
- Life is short, but winter is long.
- The universe whispers its deepest secrets when the air turns thin and cold.
- There is much to be undone.
- Changing yourself is easier than changing the world and has the same effect.