*image by Ben Harubin

Defined, The Struggle To Awaken:
For some, the most astounding journey you can ever take
without leaving home.

(Also, even if you do.)

One man suddenly concluded, "It's all a matter conservation of resources --
that along with the impossibility of conserving resources."

(After a short cooling off period, he revised the last part of his
realization to read "the absurdity of conserving resources," which, I
suppose, may or may not make it make more sense to the torpid.)

And then there's this man who will mentally ask himself "is that you?"
And mentally reply, "Yes, it's me -- who else would it be?"

(Are those words to die for, or what?)

As they neared the bedroom, a boy said to his father,
"Tell me a story."
"I do each time I talk to you," he replied.

Some "nut" stood under the window of a well-known fabulist and chanted,
"You can write about people,
you can write about pigs,
you can write what they say,
you can write what they do -- but just remember this:
it's still just writing!"

(Bring on the gas-drenched critics.)

Stunned, as he stepped into his trousers one morning and discovered that
their length finally matched exactly his height, he raised up his hands and
looked to the sky and exclaimed, "Praise be, for the 'Immaculate Alteration'!"

(Even plastic plants can benefit from the human touch...but not too much.)