You know the old story of "Give a man a fish and he can feed himself for a day ..." ?

Here's the 21st Century update.

You can give a man a fish,

he can feed himself for a day.

You know that one.

Give the man a rod,

and he can feed himself until the rod breaks.

Give the man a blueprint on how to make a rod,

he can feed himself until he's sick to death of eating fish.

Give a man

CREATIVITY

and he can invent for himself endless tools

to hunt and gather, to learn to cook,

through direct experimentation too,

and then we are in abundance, joy,

and not just barely surviving,

but finally,

THRIVING.

Silvia Hartmann