159. Nasruddin by Night
“You wouldn’t know it just by looking at me,” said Nasruddin, “but I have truly miraculous powers.”
Nasruddin’s friend laughed. “So tell me,” he said, “what is your most miraculous power?”
“I can see in the dark! In the darkest darkness, I can see as clearly as if it were broad daylight. I need no light of any kind.”
“Surely you’re joking!” his friend objected. “I’ve seen you carrying a lantern in the dark, just like everybody else does.”
“Of course!” said Nasruddin, smiling. “But I carry a lantern in the dark only so that others won’t run into me.”
This Tale is from “Tiny Tales of Nasruddin” by Laura Gibbs. The book is licensed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. © 2019-202The2 Laura Gibbs
After three days of almost continuous rain and then a travel day Erik and I finally did our morning walk. Erik was very excited for the first mile and a half with more pulling and sniffing than usual in this new location. He and I both found that we had to stay strictly on the pavement or a sidewalk and even then he would pick up an occasional goat head. Any attempt to get off the paved surface was to invite multiple goat heads; we will not do that any more.
The wind came up during the night and was still blowing this morning during our walk. This is not uncommon for Deming, I think it has been blowing every time I have been here. I can accept the wind better than I can the rain so we did our walk.