*image by Ben Harubin

Opening a kitchen cabinet, a man found he had a full shelf of tinned vegetables,
with several cans of corn, several of beans, and a few more of tomatoes, carrots,
and peas. And as he looked at them he became for some reason uneasy, and
after a time spent staring at the cans, to try and relieve his discomfort, he changed
around the positions in which the various cans were stacked.

(Why don't you just put your own headline to this story, since I'm sure that
you realize it is not about the order and pattern some guy uses in putting
his cans away in the pantry. Right?)

"Son, let me tell you something," said a father to the aforementioned.
"Life can not only be as it seems, but otherwise as well -- a fact few ever
realize. For example, not only do mimes know that they drive people crazy,
that's why they become mimes."

"When the shift closes for the day, here's what's left. Even men's best
takes on what they call 'cause-and-effect' suck -- and we're talkin'
big-time, BLIND inhalation. Now, get on outta here and let your ole dad
get back to ole-dad things."

Another Brief Dialogue:
"If you think about it, humans are plagued by a multitude of problems."
"But if you don't think about it, they're not."

Nothing forces verbalization to conform to what's actually going on like
looking at what's actually going on.

There are two varieties of "seriousness" alive on this planet:
one is the silent seriousness of physically staying alive; and
the other is the verbally expressed sort, unique to man,
which is a pretend seriousness.

So said one man to himself, "I do not believe that what is now needed is any
further condemnation of my rambling, unfocused awareness and thought, but
rather a solution to the situation."
"Am I wrong in this?"

The following tips, gave one father to his son:
The way to lead a more deliberate life physically would include
not to slam things,
not to toss things,
not to drop things,
not to handle things roughly,
not to handle things while not looking at them,
and not to talk to things.
After that you should then turn all of these hints to your inner life of thoughts.