Back Off, People!

    If you knew a person who was in a terrible accident as a child and lost a limb as a result, would you badger them to work hard to attempt to grow that limb back? Even if you believed they're such a nice person they really deserve to have the use of all their appendages? Even if you were convinced there had to be some way if they would just try hard enough? Would you really presume you knew better than they how they should allot their resources and align their priorities in their life? ...I didn't think so.

Peace, Pieces!

All the little pieces
Scattered 'round the floor
Stoop to pick a couple up
There's a couple more

Gather up the pieces
Put them in the box
Here's a bit of ocean
Here's part of the rocks

Peer under the sofa
Reach behind the door
How did this one end up here?
What is that one for?

Sifting, sorting, the multicolored throng
Weighing, wondering, does this one belong?

Many of these pieces
Don't quite seem to fit
And I find I don't feel sure
I'll ever finish it

Trying to piece together
A complete, finished frame
To hang the middle off of
But nothing looks the same

And so I have a bit of sea
Another bit of sky
Some houses here, some beetles there
An eagle perched up high

Weighing, wondering about the parts I see
Placing, piecing all the parts of me

Genius

     Me: "Say you and a botanist survived a plane crash in the desert and the only thing you could find to eat was a cactus the botanist said wouldn't kill you but would definitely make you crazy at some time in the future. You don't know exactly when because it would vary depending on a person's sensitivity and how much you ate of it and other factors. So it could be months, could be years, but you would definitely go insane eventually. What would you do?"
     Isaac: (without even a pause) "Eat the botanist."
     Brilliant! ...though disturbing...

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