The Urban Sherpa - a blog by Christopher DeWan

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The Urban Sherpa keeps a collection of stories and curios filed under Mythic Proportions.

Koan of the Colander rating=4

January 6, 2009
File under: Cogito Ergo, Housekeeping, Koan, Pithyisms

Yellow colander

I have a blue sponge in one hand and a bright yellow colander in the other, and hot water pours from the faucet. I'm trying to rinse the colander free of soap bubbles. I try and try, but I can't rinse the colander, because the colander is designed to let the water pour through. The soap bubbles persist.

Then I realize: life is like that.

I pause for a moment to contemplate this, but the water keeps pouring out of the faucet, so eventually I return to scrubbing.

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