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Drawing by Marty Coleman
Quote by Eric Hoffer
Category Archives: fear
The Story of Arm and Hand
The Story of Arm and Hand
Arm and Hand are at war with each other. Arm is lazy but Hand is not. But Arm find ways to stop the communication between Hand and her owner, Head. Head ends up thinking Hand is lazy too but it’s really just Arm’s message getting through, not Hand’s. Head feels like she can’t do anything since she can’t get Hand to do anything. Head needs help but Hand isn’t helping.
But one day Arm falls asleep and Hand gets a message through to Head saying, “I want to WORK, tell me what to do!” Head says, “OK! I want you to heal Mr. Sink.” And Hand goes and fixes Mr. Sink. Head then says, ” I want you to give Foot a massage” and hand does it.
Arm has woken up by this point but it is too late. Head and Hand have fixed the communications path and Arm must now obey whatever they decide to do. Arm is not happy about this but there is nothing she can do.
Head becomes very happy because she is able, for the first time, to see life through Hand. She likes the world she sees and lives happily ever after.
The End
Drawing and story by Marty Coleman, Publisher of The Napkin Dad Daily and Owner of MAKE Design and Photography Studio
Quote by Anonymous
A Good Scare
A man in trouble walks to town to seek advise from the local wise sage. He tells the wise sage that he is worried about dying, about leaving things undone in life. The wise sage tells him to do the best he can, to believe in himself, to put a plan together and try to take action. The man leaves the wise sage thinking that is what he is going to do. He arrives home and promptly forgets the advice.
That evening he goes out for a walk before bed. As he walks he is suddenly paralyzed with fear when a snake jumps out and almost bites him. He recognizes it as one of the most poisonous snakes in his part of the country. Just as it looks like it is about to strike again, an owl swoops down and grabs it.
The man goes home, sits down at his desk and writes out his plan. The next morning he has the first 5 items on the list crossed off before dawn.
Drawing and story by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote by E. W. Howe, 1853-1937, American novelist and editor
Yellow – Silence isn't Always Golden
Day #5 of the Color series. Check out white, green, blue and red in days past.
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The cool thing is to always talk about being silent. Listen with two ears, talk with one mouth in that ratio. Sayings like that are all around us. Religion says silence is good. Meditation is good, it’s silent.
What isn’t good is silence that is rooted in cowardice and fear. Silence when you see abuse and violence. Silence when you see corruption and hate. Silence when you see manipulation and deceit. Then it is good to speak.
But just like anything else, if you aren’t going to speak up in the small things you see, if you aren’t going to practice speaking, then when it comes to something big, something that really matters, you might not be able to speak very well.
Don’t be a coward. Don’t be yellow. Speak up.
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Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote author unknown
>Fear Is A Question
>A vintage napkin from 2001.
Do you think this is true? What would your fear question be?
