Old-Fashioned Fruitcake
Do you learn best through hands-on experimentation? Or hearing it explained – by yourself or someone else? Or do you need to see it written down in order to remember?
Does understanding come to you through description? Or diagrams? Or do you need to see it done?
Or are you one of the remarkable few who can understand those instruction booklets translated from one language to another by someone who apparently spoke neither?
From all your herds, a cup or two of milk,
From all your granaries, a loaf of bread,
In all your palace, only half a bed:
Can man use more? And do you own the rest?
from an ancient Sanskrit poem,
quoted by Rolf Potts in his book Vagabonding.
Rates go to pay for a lot of things – roads being one of the most commonly cited when people complain about the relentless rise of their rates bill.
Given the choice, would you rather give up paved roads or libraries?
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It’s no contest for me; I’ve lived a large proportion of my life in areas without paved roads, but I can’t be doing without a library.
Besides, unpaved roads make people drive slower.