The Challenge of Turning Circles Around a Square

What a glorious day it was as I walked to my park bench. The light rain cleared the air of smoke from the recent fires and I could finally breath deeply. The tennis courts were empty, the ball fields silent, and the middle school play ground seemed to be resting between recesses.

As I sat down on my bench the quiet did not last long. There appeared on the baseball field in front of me a large tractor smoothing the infield. The driver was doing a great job until he came to the bases. He kept making circles around the square bases. No matter how hard he tried or how close he got to the bases he always left a rim of dirt around the square bases. He did not want to get off his tractor and move the bases and so around and around he went and the more times he circled the worse it got.

It occured to me that you cannot cut corners when circling a square base. How often do we keep circling hoping that somehow it will be different this time, unwilling to get off the tractor and move the base!

"Every prudent person acts with knowledge, but a fool lays open their folly." Proverbs 13:16 NKJV

Tim

I Would Pad The Bench And Install A Foot Rest!

I love to walk to my bench with my daughter. The conversation on the way to the bench and while sitting on my bench is always stimulating. She has a small library on personality types and has figured out her type and the personalities of her father, mother and sister. This was the topic of discussion as we walked to my park bench. Based on the Myers-Briggs test each of us has a series of letters that determine our dominate type and secondary types. I read the description of my personality and found it to be quite actuate, especially the positive stuff (denial is one of my traits).

Once at the bench and after much discussion, I posed a question: Based on your study, what would each of our family members do to this bench? Here is what she concluded:

Mother: She would clean the bench with an anti-bacterial soap.
Father: He would pad the bench, slant the back (for slouching) and install a foot rest.
Older Sister: She would redecorate the bench, repainting with a faux finish.

And what would she do? Study the bench and determine it's uniqueness compared to other benches!

What would you do to the bench?

Tim