Pearls of Wisdom
![]() “Oh what a tangled web we weave” someone once wrote, they saw webs as perhaps sticky situations of our own making or perhaps a web that was not even our own that we walked into, another persons tangled mess of a situation that we became stuck in for a while. In the child’s story, Charlotte's Web, a spider, spun a web which had a message embedded into it, implying that within the web we can find not only trouble but also meaning and perhaps even salvation. Through trial and hardships we can find meaning, by being in the web perhaps gives us some meaning in life. The ancient peoples and cultures of the world believed in a web of interconnectedness in the world. That all things regardless of how trivial they might seem are connected, the smallest thing is related to the most magnificent, indeed, in modern times the “World Wide Web” is attempting to connect and unite the world together. Webs, like all concepts and notions have two opposite poles, negative and positive. 1. What kind of webs have you woven in your life? _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ 2. When was the last time you felt stuck in a web with no apparent way out? _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ 3. On the “interconnectedness” of webs, how are the following elements connected (Lumberjack, sun, water, tree, paper and pen)? _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ Nuggets of Dirt
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