Stuff

 It's been a bad week for a few people in my life - bereavements and family illness and such. Not sure what to say about it. 

I had plans for what to do today, but it's very windy. Which seems a bit wussy, but I mean, properly windy! Inconveniently, excessively, bitingly windy, all while the sun shines to beckon you out.

Oh that reminds me, there's an Aesop's Fable about the wind and the sun in competition to take a man's coat off, isn't there? The wind tries to pull it away from him and eventually is forced to give up, whereupon the sun shines down on him until he takes it off by choice. Apparently it's about the value of persuasion and gentleness rather than force. 

But I'm not sure that works really - the sun's strength IS its heat. Just because it doesn't have the ability to pull the guy's coat away from him kinetically doesn't mean it isn't using its strength - it's beaming down on him so strongly he starts to sweat. 

Ha, nice try. Aesop.

Finished: The Facts of Life & Death - Belinda Bauer