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How an Owl Can Sooth Worries
perspective, simplicity, reading list, quotes, inspiration Add commentsA paragraph in National Geographic Adventure caught my attention. This is a tale of leaving the Big Apple to carve out a life in very rural - and isolated - Vermont.
At night, lying in bed with the windows open and ticking off our list of problems, we’d hear a barred owl hooting –”Who cooks for you?”–and be struck by the small scale of our worries. Were we to fade away, Cathy said, that owl would be here anyway, keeping someone else awake with its questioning call, questioning nothing.
Yes, our problems are pretty small. They just seem big because they are happening to us. Sometimes it takes the big wide world to put our challenges into perspective.
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September 5th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Yep, however badly off you are, someone is much worse. Also, if you dropped dead tomorrow, life would still go on, for others. So take it easy!