In an earlier post this month, I mentioned the lotus, but I used a picture of a water lily to represent it. It served as my lotus factotum since I had misplaced my lotus pictures. SAM has kindly undertaken the task of moving a virtual truckload of photos from the hard drive to other storage devices--CD-ROMs--and I had to sift through them to find what I wanted. A lotus may look similar to the water-lily and share its quality of beauty, but its flowering habit--emerging from the water instead of floating on the surface--and other factors seem to set it apart. I took the lotus (Nelumbo lutea) photos last year when SAM and I were living in Illinois and had visited Lake Glendale. Walking around the lake and taking in the lotus beauty released a lot of tension we had allowed to build over the previous several months.
The world watched a modern version of detente--release of tensions--unfold yesterday. While the men at the White House moved forward--sitting at table being served their beer--I wondered what beverage their women were consuming. Did FLOTUS order tea? It's an ancient drink, I'll grant, and lends itself to looking back instead of forward. Still, it might serve useful to remind the Niall-of-the-Nine-Hostages descendants to avoid in future the appearance of stirring a Tempest in a Teapot.
"The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious."--Marcus Tullius Cicero
The world watched a modern version of detente--release of tensions--unfold yesterday. While the men at the White House moved forward--sitting at table being served their beer--I wondered what beverage their women were consuming. Did FLOTUS order tea? It's an ancient drink, I'll grant, and lends itself to looking back instead of forward. Still, it might serve useful to remind the Niall-of-the-Nine-Hostages descendants to avoid in future the appearance of stirring a Tempest in a Teapot.
"The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious."--Marcus Tullius Cicero*****************************************************************
"One who performs his duty without attachment, surrendering the results unto the Supreme Lord, is unaffected by sinful action, as the lotus leaf is untouched by water."--Bhagavad Gita 5.10
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