Some of you may have seen these things and others might not
have. The porcupine story a writer
friend of mine sent me from my old writing group in CA. This story has a nice moral and is a good
reminder for all of us who encounter people in life who are hard to agree with.
The other link is a useful resource I stumbled across on a
Linked In thread a few days ago. This
link is especially useful if you write historical fiction. I wish we had a source like this for US
history, but I haven’t checked into it.
We may have.
Moral of the Porcupine
I never knew porcupines were so cute as babies. Good story with a great message.
Have you ever seen a baby porcupine?
Fable of the porcupine
It was the coldest winter ever. Many animals died because of the cold.
The porcupines, realizing the situation, decided to group
together to keep warm. This way they
covered and protected themselves; but the quills of each one wounded its
closest companions.
After awhile, they decided to distance themselves one from
the other and they began to die, alone and frozen. So they had to make a choice: either accept
the quills of their companions or disappear from the Earth.
Wisely, they decided to go back to being together. They learned to live with the little wounds
caused by the close relationship with their companions in order to receive the
heat that came from the others. This way
they were able to survive.
The best relationship is not the one that brings together
perfect people, but when each individual learns to live with the imperfections
of others and can admire the other person’s good qualities.
The moral of the story is - Just learn to live with the
Pricks in your life!
At times, this is still a learning curve for me.
Now here’s the writing resource I mentioned earlier. I can only imagine stepping inside a place
like this, the smell of old newspapers immediately enveloping me. This would be almost as good as going into an
old library filled with thousands of old books.
Oh my gosh! I would be in
heaven. Just give me a blanket and check
on me in a week or so.
Anyway, if you need to do research of history for your
current WIP, this would be the place as long as it wasn’t before 1800 and your
work had something to do with Great
Britain .
They archive old newspapers back that far in London .
Some of this info is available free by signing up for an account. To have more access, you can get a paid
registration. To read this article and
sign up to research old newspapers, please see Susan Nolen’s blog here: British Library Newspaper Archives
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