I saw a crow today in the middle of the La Tuna Road in Sunland, a community in North West Los Angeles. The crow was keeping to the middle of the road as much as possible in spite of drivers going 50 – 60 miles an hour past it in both directions. After all, it had a purpose. A road kill squirrel that was lying just north of the narrow center divider.
This road kill was a fairly nasty piece of work as it had been flattened numerous times by compact and SUV alike. The only thing that suggested it had been a squirrel at some time was the fuzzy tail. Otherwise it appeared to be a grey/black blob.
This crow, it seems, wanted its’ fair share of the potential meal. Now my initial reaction may have been similar to yours as I described it. Disgust.
But after a quick moment’s thought, I realized that the crow was just being a crow. This is what they do. They eat anything vaguely eatable in order to survive.
As luck would have it, my reverie was interrupted by some radio personality telling LA that Miss California had lost her crown because she wasn’t showing up for the gigs that they had set up for her as Miss California.
So here she was after all of the commotion of the controversial pictures to her controversial answer in the pageant – fired from her job.
So what really happened? She forgot to be the “crow.” Unlike the crow who continued to be the crow in his actions, she forgot to be the Beauty Queen doing the Beauty Queen stuff. No matter how others might look upon the Beauty Queen, with distaste or disdain, as long as she keeps being the Beauty Queen, she’ll make it. She’ll survive. Stop doing the Beauty Queen stuff, zoink! It’s her undoing.
This is a purely obvious observation that, all too often, we fail to see. I remember being an installation developer wishing I was the GUI designer. I spent too much time suggesting and helping on the GUI design of a product and way too little time on my own job. The GUI came out fine; my installation program had to be redone after going through our Test Lab.
And so Miss California was too busy being right about her answer on Gay marriage and her own personal career that she didn’t take care of what she was – A Beauty Queen.
This road kill was a fairly nasty piece of work as it had been flattened numerous times by compact and SUV alike. The only thing that suggested it had been a squirrel at some time was the fuzzy tail. Otherwise it appeared to be a grey/black blob.
This crow, it seems, wanted its’ fair share of the potential meal. Now my initial reaction may have been similar to yours as I described it. Disgust.
But after a quick moment’s thought, I realized that the crow was just being a crow. This is what they do. They eat anything vaguely eatable in order to survive.
As luck would have it, my reverie was interrupted by some radio personality telling LA that Miss California had lost her crown because she wasn’t showing up for the gigs that they had set up for her as Miss California.
So here she was after all of the commotion of the controversial pictures to her controversial answer in the pageant – fired from her job.
So what really happened? She forgot to be the “crow.” Unlike the crow who continued to be the crow in his actions, she forgot to be the Beauty Queen doing the Beauty Queen stuff. No matter how others might look upon the Beauty Queen, with distaste or disdain, as long as she keeps being the Beauty Queen, she’ll make it. She’ll survive. Stop doing the Beauty Queen stuff, zoink! It’s her undoing.
This is a purely obvious observation that, all too often, we fail to see. I remember being an installation developer wishing I was the GUI designer. I spent too much time suggesting and helping on the GUI design of a product and way too little time on my own job. The GUI came out fine; my installation program had to be redone after going through our Test Lab.
And so Miss California was too busy being right about her answer on Gay marriage and her own personal career that she didn’t take care of what she was – A Beauty Queen.
She forgot to be the crow.
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