EPISODE 827 IMAGINATIoN AND A STUMP FENCE
alan skeoch
may 27, 2023
What do you see here?
There is more to a stump fence than meets the eye. However you will need a dash of imagination.
Maybe a dollop of abstract thinking. Maybe it is possible to see things in a stump fence that
do not exist except in our minds. A stump fence is a kind of wooden
Rorschach test…(an ink block test).
Long long ago I remember sitting in Runnymede Presbyterian church when Dr. McQueen
gave his regular children sermon. He always did this before the adult sermon. I could
enjoy those sermons because he used stump fences as triggers for presenting big ideas.
. “This week
I found this piece of a stump fence that looked like a woodpecker hunting for hidden
grubs.”
IMAGINARY LESSON FROM A STUMP FENCE
“This week we have a woodpecker in search
of food…a listener…a searcher for something unseen….a hard worker whose life depends on
the ability to pound out holes in search of treasure. Some humans do that every day.
Work can be hard. Hard work, however, often leads to treasure. A good book can do that.
I read one the other day titled Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. You would like that book.
…presents big ideas that should concern us all. Like the dangers of pesticides.”
All this from a chunk of a stump fence. yes. Imagination is wonderful. Use it.
CAN YOU SEE ANYTHING IMAGINARY IN THESE STUMPS?
DID you notice the sea otter about to be engulfed by big wave?
I see a young sea otter…or is it a duck?
…Marjorie saw a mongoose.
alligator or snake about to eat a yellow flower
coiled python with head hidden
gaping mouth of the child python found
on a root about 20 feet away from the body…that
is one big Pythonl
FIND THE TINY HAND!
Tiny hand reading out to greet. Can you find the hand in the original pic? I bet you cannot!
alan may 28,2023
(I SAW A TINY HAND REACHING OUT IN GREETING….does that mean anything?
POST SCRIPT: RORSCHACH TEST
