My Pile Of Books Is Level Now

First, after a long hiatus, Sunnybunni, my youngest daughter who’s in college, resumed blog posting this week. She only has two courses to pass (more A’s in her future) before graduating. This young lady has overcome enormous obstacles to reach this point and I admire her greatly. Please drop in on her blog and encourage her with a comment. Her address is The Rabbit Hole at http://www.holerabbit.blogspot.com/

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Wednesday I sat at my desk for ten or 12 hours researching my book on fire department history.

During this time I gave no thought to God, nor man, nor even girls in green bikinis.

One thing I did think about was two side-by-side piles of 16 books on Florida history on the table beside my desk.

These books, each of a different thickness, did not make even piles.

Several times I rearranged the stacks.

Getting them even became an obsession to me.

I found that if I place nine books in the left-hand pile and seven books in the right hand pile, they come out level. But now I ended up with a green book on top of the right pile and a red book on top of the left.

I kept fooling with them again and again till they finally satisfied me.

What’s the difference?

What does it matter if two piles of books level out in equal stacks?

It’s just that every time I looked at them, they looked wrong.

That bothered me.

It bothered me a lot.

Perhaps this obsession reveals the onset of a mental illness.

Maybe I’m going crazy… crazier?

That could be the answer; after all, I am a Christian.

Oh, you haven’t heard? News reports from Afghanistan say the officials judging Abdul Rahman may not execute him for being a Christian after all.

No, there’s talk of declaring him “mentally unfit” to stand trial. That way they don’t have to face international outrage over killing him for being a Christian, they can just put him in an insane asylum and “treat” him for the rest of his life.

Good call.

Problem solved.

Everybody knows that you have to be crazy to be a Christian.

I wonder, if they allow him to have books in the insane asylum, will he stack them in nice, even, level piles?