Peter Callesen

For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do. After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream.

‘I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house.’

The old woman smiled, ‘Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot’s side? That’s because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house.’

Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it’s the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You’ve just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.

My friends are crack pots. 

The plan was to eat my lunch while catching up with the community boards and a few private emails and maybe even a round of packrat on facebook. Simple, easy and flexible. One would think…

The prawns were frozen and I had to reboot the server so the internet connection would be gone just for long enough for me to miss out with the private stuff in my lunch hour (which is a misnomer because my lunch hour is never an hour long). Since I don’t know of a safe way to defrost prawns fast, lunch went out the window.

It’s been a horrible couple of months at work. I’m really behind with work. I’ve had illness that put me out of action for almost three months out of the last twelve months and preparing for the review took a lot of time too. I’m feeling overwhelmed and I’m very tired.

Now that I have the review over, I can concentrate fully with catching up.

I had to go to another doctor as the other didn’t resolve it for me.

I finally slept well and right through the night and woke up refreshed.

The down side is that I didn’t get any scrapping done last night.

I made this new alpha and it’s available at Zig Zag Scrap