Espresso Cup - Retired

Last week, the article was early. This week, it’s late. My apologies. As I was putting this together, something didn’t make sense. Eventually, I realized I was merging two concepts that needed to be separated. That done, here you go!

An Unexpected Lesson

This week, I noticed once again, how my cultural stereotypes have been reinforced. I faced a couple of situations where it just seemed like everyone was unduly angry and had overdosed on entitlement right here in my backyard. What happened to that Christmas Spirit of my childhood that I so vividly remembered?

I started comparing the city of New York and its nearly 9 million people to Manchester, Iowa with its population of 5,000.

In my head, I was tempted to hypothesize that even from 1,000 miles away, the “Empire State Attitude” of New Yorkers was bleeding into rural America. Of course, this is based on a well-known assumption, “New Yorkers are rude.” 

Out of the Mouths of Babes

I think that on more than one occasion, I have muttered the phrase, “From out of the mouths of babes.”

This phrase is typically meant to indicate that someone (usually a child) has said something profound by articulating some tidbit of wisdom that is considered well beyond their years of education and experience.  

I was not privy to the origin of this expression, so I was a bit surprised to read that it is a quote from the Bible. I rarely (about as often as I choose to eat a Carolina Reaper – look it up) pick up the King James Version.  This completely explains why I was uninformed as to this translation of Psalm 8:2.

But sure enough, that’s exactly what it says – exactly!