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I love folklore. Lewis's conversion is spurred, I'm told, by a conversation with Tolkien in which the old mythmaker challenged Lewis's atheism/agnosticism with this idea: "Christianity is the One True Myth."
This proverb makes all other myths borrowers from the Real Story. So, I read folklore like a gold miner.
I read a Russian folk tale recently that I had heard before, but never read in this form, called the Frog Princess. You can read it here. I loved this line: "Morning is wiser than evening." I find that to be true as well, though as a recovering night-owl, my findings are coming at a great personal cost.
Getting up early (and the corresponding commitment to get to bed before too late) has seemed to open up options. And yes, morning seems to give wisdom that the evening doesn't give. But, is morning wiser than evening as a rule? I must admit that even as I write this, I am still convinced that night counsels deep wisdom that the morning never knows. David knew this, and writes in his famous 119th Psalm, "At midnight, I rise and give you thanks."
Aaahh...vindication!
Baseball is a complicated sport. That's partly why people love it. Its like life in that regard; there are a lot of variables to keep in mind. Success doesn't just happen automatically.
Read this quote the other day at an amazing website--amazing because I know nothing about the disease of being "hockey malnourished"--and was reminded that I appreciate the connection between sports and real life...
To quote the baseball adage: ‘You’re never as good as your best day, and you’re never as bad as your worst day.’
Are you able to keep this kind of even keel perspective in your work?
