Momma Duck Story (Perfect for Mother’s Day)

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Here is an email I received  earlier in the week.  You know I am a sucker for animal stories so here is one that is perfect for Mother’s Day.  All moms need a helping hand…

A True Duck Story from San Antonio , Texas
Something really cute happened in downtown San Antonio this week. Michael R. is an accounting clerk at Frost Bank and works there in a second story office.  Several weeks ago, he watched a mother duck choose the concrete awning outside his window as the unlikely place to build a nest above the sidewalk. The mallard laid ten eggs in a nest in the corner of the planter that is perched over 10 feet in the air. She dutifully kept the eggs warm for weeks, and Monday afternoon all of her ten ducklings hatched.

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Michael worried all night how the momma duck was going to get those babies safely off their perch in a busy, downtown, urban environment to take to water, which typically happens in the first 48 hours of a duck hatching.  Tuesday morning, Michael watched the mother duck encourage her babies to the edge of the perch with the intent to show them how to jump off.  Office work came to a standstill as everyone gathered to watch.
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The mother flew down below and started quacking to her babies above. In disbelief Michael watched as the first fuzzy newborn trustingly toddled to the edge and astonishingly leapt into thin air, crashing onto the cement below. Michael couldn’t stand to watch this risky effort nine more times!  He dashed out of his office and ran down the stairs to the sidewalk where the first obedient duckling, near its mother, was resting in a stupor after the near-fatal fall.  Michael stood out of sight under the awning-planter, ready to help.
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Godly Humor

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Concept of the Conversation Corporation e-book

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Attendees included Robert Scoble, Greg Merkle, (Dow Jones) Peter Reiser (Sun), Neeraj Mathur (Sun), Daniela Barbosa (Dow Jones) , Rebecca Frisch (Dow Jones), Carolyn Flynn (Dow Jones) (photo credits)

@danielabarbosa is a superstar, she posted these “pictures from the working session when the concept of the Conversation Corporation e-book was first discussed” on her Flickr account.  “The Conversational Corporation examines the new ways your employees, the outside world and future generations will communicate and collaborate. From public conversations to social media projects started behind the firewall, social media tools are changing the way we work and altering the expectations of customers and colleagues.  This e-book will help you explore the intersection between business and social media and understand the need to transform your organization into a “conversational corporation.”  The eBook looks great, I would have been so starstruck to have been in the same room as Scoble…

A Word To The Wise (Email I Received)

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  •  “Whoever guards his mouth, and tongue keeps his soul from troubles.”  (Proverbs Chapter 21 Verse 23)
  • This bit of verse by an unknown writer says it well:  “The boneless tongue, so small and weak, can crush and kill,” declared the Greek.
  • The Persian proverb wisely saith, “A lengthy tongue, an early death.”
  • Sometimes it takes this form instead:  “Don’t let your tongue cut off your head.”
  • While Arab sages this impart:  “The tongue’s great storehouse is the heart.”
  • From Hebrew wit, the Maxim’s sprung:  Though feet should slip, don’t let the tongue.”
  • A verse from Scripture crowns the whole:  “Who keeps the tongue doth keep his/her soul.”

The Mule & The Well

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One day a farmer’s Mule fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway, it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the mule. So he invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.

At first, the mule realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone’s amazement, he quieted down.  A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well and was astonished at what he saw.

With every shovel of dirt that hit his back, the mule was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up. As the farmer’s neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the mule stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off.

The Moral:
Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a stepping stone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not giving up! Shake it off and take a step up!