Photo Credit: Charli Mills & The Carrot Ranch
As a child I wanted to know things but both details and a bigger picture of life; good and evil, right and wrong, through my young eyes were cloudy and frustrating to contemplate.
School felt inefficient but certain people and certain books taught patience and calmly led me forward.
Rules of economics, science, sociology, logic, even theology grew to allow careful peeling away strips of confusion like layered strips of wax-paper, revealing portions of obscured truth.
Decades later, my hope is knowing that beneath these remaining metaphorical strips lies a multi-colored mosaic that explains everything I need to know.
Inspired by Charli Mill’s Carrot Ranch, #99WordStory Challenge
and her prompt of April 28, 2023: write a story about, “The Color or Hope”.
Gary A Wilson Stories 
This is all I’ve learned – “As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” Donald Rumsfield
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This is great Deb.
I’d not heard this quote.
Thanks 😊
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Oh, it’s one of my favorites from the Bush 2 days!
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A colorful mosaic of a happy ending, discovering and finding color in the gray area between the black and white. Cool take on the prompt.
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Thanks D.
This one still feels strained, leaving me think that this image just isn’t going to fit in 99 words.
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But it did fit. And the good news is, it’s still yours to play with. You can revise it or grow it and give it another life beyond the Carrot Ranch response.
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