Ryan's Headway

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do. After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house." The old woman smiled, "Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side?" "That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house." Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them. So, to all of my crackpot friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path!

"Much of life can never be explained but only witnessed." - Rachel Naomi Remen, MD

NAIROBI (AFP) - A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa, officials said.
The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean, then forced back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, 2004 before wildlife rangers rescued him.

"It is incredible. A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy with being a 'mother'," ecologist Paula Kahumbu, who is in charge of Lafarge Park, told AFP.

"After it was swept and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately, it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep together," the ecologist added. "The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it follows its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother," Kahumbu added.

"The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and by nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for four years," he explained.


This is a real story that shows that our differences don't matter much when we need the comfort of another. We could all learn a lesson from these two creatures of God. Look beyond the differences and find a way to walk the path together.
 

 

 

At the end of last week I found myself in a very artistic/creative mood. Not sure what caused it exactly but I just wanted to make something. I started looking at art others have made to feed my craving for art while I was stuck at work but it only made me want to make something even more. I also saw many people using a program I had heard of before but never tried. I started reading up more about it and that turned my craving into a more specific one of wanting to make something with that program. But while it takes awhile to get so meanwhile I compiled some of the art I had saw earliar into one piece. Which I titled Unified Beauty. Since its too big to fit nicely in here I will just leave you this link to go view it: Unified Beauty but all credit belongs to the creators of the images I used in it: c-dawg, Homeryulo and andidas.

 

Once the program which is known as Maxon Cinema 4D or just C4D finished. I created this: Council of Ruin . Ulzhan's artistic eye helped me notice a few areas needing touch up and thats the updated version. If your ever interested in making 3D digital art/imaging. I would highly suggest that program, not only does it have the ability to make extremely high quality images but it also is quite user friendly and easy to follow. And is very good for animation. If your wondering why the words Council of Ruin. I really was not creating the image for any reason just wanted to make something, those were the first words that came to my mind. I play games now and then, like computer games. And have friends that also play and they made a group which they called that like 5 years ago and is still running and I joined it also. Here's our site if your curious: www.cordorgaming.com

 

Anyways not much is new with me. Can't wait for the weekend, and hopefully this time I won't screw up my sleep cycle. Hope all of your summers are going well.

 

Take care,

Ryan

 

Needed to get rid of that sad blog so here we are =)    Sweet thoughts of you on this lovely day Wishing and hoping things go your way May there be sunshine after the the rain And lots of happiness time and time again May you be blessed today and tomorrow May joy spring up in times of sorrow     Thinking Of You!     written by Mary E. Carpio