Volcano – Encyclopedia of Characters – updated 2017

by | Mar 8, 2010 | Encyclopedia of Characters, Volcano | 0 comments

Today we have a new addition to The Napkin Dad Encyclopedia, Introducing Volcano!


Volcano is dangerous and beautiful. Sometimes it is a she, sometimes a he. Volcano represents what can’t be held in any longer. What is inside you that is going to find it’s way out, no matter what. it is down the road, or maybe in your bed. It erupts continually most of your life, or is dormant until many years has passed. Volcano is never truly extinct, it is always capable of rumbling.

When you see Volcano on a napkin you are perhaps seeing what might happen if a direction doesn’t change. You might be witnessing a truth coming out, or a wrong that about to be finally righted.
 
Volcano is often misunderstood. It wants to be helpful but it only know how to spew and erupt. It would like to find smaller fissures to enable itself to come out more gracefully. But in the end, all it knows is that it has to come out, one way or another.

Whatever Is Good To Know – updated 2017

by | Oct 25, 2009 | Greek Proverbs, Volcano | 0 comments

Proverbs continued…

And that is why, whether it’s about ratios or relationships, math or mates, your children are not likely to learn it just because you told it to them. As a matter of fact, it’s likely you DID tell it to them and they didn’t even hear you.

One must learn it, experience it, suffer the pain of pursuing it, themselves. That is why parent’s are doing their children no favors when they don’t allow them to experience pain, uncertainty, decision-making and failure on their own.

They must climb the cliffs, brave the seas and climb the volcano on their own, in their own pursuit of what is good to know.

Drawing and commentary © Marty Coleman

“Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.” – a Greek Proverb