Angry Spirtis And Great Humility
Being a foreigner in a new land takes great humility. Every day is a new challenge. It requires a fresh mind and a new set of guiding principles. It can feel at times like the rules are constantly changing yet in fact, you are the one changing, most everything else is constant. We are the odd ones here. We feel it every day as life buzzes around us in a chaotic yet seemingly synchronized pace. Meanwhile, we walk around like a duck out of water. Our webbed feet don't seem quite right to navigate the land and our quack seems to have no meaning excepting our own ears. For some reason the phone in my house has started to ring. Honestly I didn't even remember I had one. Now it rings and rings. My first impulse is to hide. Some how my mind seems to think that if I try to conceal myself the ringing will go away. When I pick it up there is a recording. It sounds happy but I have no idea what it is saying. All I know is it finishes, I hang up and awhile later the phone