It’s a nice thought but then, how do you pay all your bills if you give it all away? I’m trying to answer that age old question when an outdoor fly decides he wants to be an indoor house fly. Not wanting this interloper in my house I had to search in the pantry for my fly swatter that I thought I wouldn’t need until next summer. My next thought was to ask myself what have I got to blog about at this moment in time? Really nothing.

So it’s back to my mission of the moment to exterminate this insufferable fly. I must have a plan for its demise. Looking down at my swatter it dawned on me as I watched this fly, fly by. What is the safest place for a fly to land? I’m now armed with my swatter and it’s going to land someplace. So where might that be? Again looking at my swatter it dawns on me that flies must be pretty smart to have annoyed human beings for thousands of years and we humans have spent thousands of years trying to wipe them out. But this unwanted annoyance that I’m watching buzz about finally picks his safest spot to land and gets a few minutes of rest. I want to be fair and treat all flies equally as this interloper might be a she fly. It’s on my fly swatter. This fly of unknown sex has just demonstrated to me why the fly species has been around for so long. It has a brain that says if you land on the swatter you are safe because when the swatter is grabbed that’s an early warning sign to get your rear in gear knowing that you can move faster than whatever is swinging the swatter. But I’m afraid of the day when I awaken from my sleep and there are no more flies to annoy me. I think that’s a big warning signal that we Homosapiens might be in deep trouble. 

I like thinking more about giving and taking than the fly sitting on my fly swatter knowing that as much as I would like to punch his lights out it knows it’s safe and hopefully that means that we are safe also.

A song from the 1920’s The Glory of Love sung by Jimmy Durante has just tickled my vocal cords “You’ve got to give a little take a little and let your heart break a little, that’s the story of that’s the glory of love.” 

                   See Ya, 

                     Jack