Just a quote for Friday

(actually a poem today...)

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not my photo...I found it here

What an Oyster Can Teach a Person

There was an oyster whose story I tell.
Who found that some sand had got into this shell.

It was only a grain, but it gave him great pain,
For oysters have feelings although they’re so plain.

Now, did he berate the harsh workings of fate
That brought him to such a deplorable state?

Did he curse at the government, cry for election,
And claim that the sea should have given him protection?

“No,” he said to himself as he lay on a shell,
“Since I cannot remove it, I shall try to improve it."

Now the years rolled around, as the years always do,
And he came to his ultimate destiny: stew.

And that small grain of sand that had bothered him so,
Was a beautiful pearl, all richly aglow.

Now the tale has a moral, for isn’t it grand,
What an oyster can do with a morsel of sand.

And what couldn’t we do if we’d only begin,
With some of the things that get under our skin?

~ author unknown ~

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