An extraordinary lesson from a group of little ducks 🙂
And please don’t miss the parenting lesson: the adult duck COULD help them as they strive…but she doesn’t. She is present, she waits, she encourages, but she let them succeed through their own efforts. And THIS is real help…
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.” ― Henry David Thoreau,
A fantastic Bob Fosse’s choreography, with an heart attack provoking Sandahl Bergman.
(Do you remember Valeria, from “Conan the Barbarian” (1982)?
And her quote: “Do you want to live forever?” Yeah…
…that your very existence is an act of rebellion!
