I am working on reading another book - A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle - the book report will come later after I finish it and if I decide I like it or not! At any rate, there are some nuggets of information that I am finding useful, the most entertaining of which I shared with Holly and David. The gist of it is, after two ducks get into a fight, they separate and float off in opposite directions. Each duck flaps its wings vigorously a couple of times to release the surplus energy built up during the fight and then float off peacefully as if nothing ever happened. The point is that once the fight is over and the excess energy expended...it's over, neither duck carries any resentment, hostility or even memory of the issue.
The point in the book is that we need to be a lot more like ducks in some cases, letting things go rather than carrying the issue as a burden long after the issue has been resolved. I can definitely take a page from the book of the duck, as I tend to over-think and process stuff sometimes, which ends up bugging me probably far more than it should or needs to.
When Holly and I were chatting about this, I mentioned that ducks seem to have quite the knack for letting things go, as in the phrase like water off a duck's back. The duck is one cool character and one that is worthy of some ink space here. When I told Holly that she should BE the duck, her reply was, 'maybe you should BLOG the duck'.
Consider it done!
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Oh... I miss you and Holly! And I had to laugh about blogging the duck - a friend and I at work always try to be like the duck and let things go like 'water off a duck's back' - one of our favorite phrases - easier said than done! And nice adjustment of the title picture - I thought for a while that Holly was part of the witness protection program. Love to you both!
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