Elizabeth Adams's Blog, page 105
January 19, 2012
19. How the mighty have fallen
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
Lao Tzu
How the mighty have fallen!
2 Samuel 1:27
Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy today. Seems amazing, but it's been coming. While much of the analysis in the media will focus on competition from Japan in the 1980s, a failure to shift successfully from film to digital, and the sinking U.S. economy, it's true that other companies have been able to adapt to changing situations. My professional photographer husband remarked, "I could have told them what they needed to do twenty-five years ago: listen to their customers. They were such an incredibly arrogant company."
January 18, 2012
Cardamom/Kakula
For the language nuts out there, a fascinating post on the linguistic origins of an Arabic word for cardamom, kakula. This is from bint battuta, who is based in Bahrain and has recently started blogging again. I'm so glad!
January 17, 2012
17.
Snow, light as sugar
drifts into dunes, mesas, canyons
so willing to be shaped
so sure of its beauty.
January 16, 2012
16.
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Lao Tzu
January 15, 2012
15.
The career of a sage is of two kinds:
He is either honored by all in the world,
Like a flower waving its head,
Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao Tzu
January 14, 2012
14.
Veiled in fog, the evening star --
obscured like bright intentions,
love's words that rose too late.
