{"id":3235,"date":"2015-03-15T23:09:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T03:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2015-03-15T23:54:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T03:54:54","slug":"corn-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3235","title":{"rendered":"Corn for everyone…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You just never know who is going to show up at the party, now do you?\u00a0 Oh sure….. you think you do.\u00a0 But DO YOU?<\/p>\n

Take this for example.\u00a0 We decided to put out a Deer Trough at the beginning of this nearly-past Winter.\u00a0 We filled it with whole corn, every day.\u00a0 And the deer came.\u00a0\u00a0 They ate.\u00a0 They were happy.\u00a0 Heck, WE were happy.<\/p>\n

We would smile and wave at them, and they would raise a hoof back.\u00a0 Like a long-distance “Hoof Bump.”\u00a0 Ssss’all Good Baby.<\/p>\n

But wait.\u00a0 What is happening here?\u00a0 The next thing you know, every Tom, Dick, and Harry decides they can come to the Banquet too.\u00a0 Of course we had birds of all designs.\u00a0 But raccoons, possum, chipmunks, squirrels… you name it… we had it.<\/p>\n

When it is colder than a well-digger’s booty… well… I guess everybody needs a good frozen corn meal.<\/p>\n

Yes.\u00a0 We had some guests we didn’t really intend on having.\u00a0 In fact… the party was out of control.<\/p>\n

But this is just yet another example of the bigger picture, if you ask me.<\/p>\n

In life, in general, we simply can’t control everything.\u00a0 A lot of times… we can’t control most things.<\/p>\n

Our intentions may be good and we may have constructed a well-mapped out plan.\u00a0 But much to our dismay, at times, things just don’t “pan out” the way we thought they would.<\/p>\n

Your daughter marries that guy that’s been divorced twice, and has five kids from another marriage.\u00a0 Your cat pees on your dinner guest’s shoes…. right during the main course.\u00a0\u00a0 You get sick the night before\u00a0 you go on vacation.\u00a0\u00a0 The chocolate soufle’ just collapsed in the over.<\/p>\n

We may have planned…. even prepared…. for these things to go much differently,\u00a0 Yet.\u00a0 When it comes right down to it… life’s events unfold and evolve however they dang well please.<\/p>\n

One little tickity tock at a time.
\nSo what do we do?<\/p>\n

Well, in the case of our trough, we could have simply quit putting corn out there.\u00a0 That would have stopped the raccoons, and the possum, and the squirrels alright.\u00a0 But it would have stopped the deer too.\u00a0 And that was our original purpose and intention.\u00a0 Our good measure would have been curtailed.<\/p>\n

No… I don’t think we should ever lose sight of what is in our good hearts to begin with. We just have to accept that the goodness\u00a0 in our hearts still is very much there…. it is just taking form in some other way. \u00a0\u00a0 Maybe what is getting in the way… is what is in our heads.<\/p>\n

All of this may sound a bit corny…\u00a0 but… if you ever want to talk more about any of this…. I will certainly lend you an ear.<\/p>\n

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.\u00a0 —\u00a0 John Burroughs<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You just never know who is going to show up at the party, now do you?\u00a0 Oh sure….. you think you do.\u00a0 But DO YOU? Take this for example.\u00a0 We decided to put out a Deer Trough at the beginning of this nearly-past Winter.\u00a0 We filled it with whole corn, every day.\u00a0 And the deer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3242,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/3242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}