The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-02
THE HIGHER
THE FEWER
There's Always Plenty of Room
At The Top
By
NANCY ]. MIDGET

"Out of the blue" or "a bolt
out of the blue" always seemed
to ring with foreboding to me
like kilograms and unexpected
long distance phone calls. sup
pose it is because most of the
kilograms, etc l have received
have brought disturbing news
though few have been the OPP
posite; there was one that told
me that great friend had at last
reached home after being a pris-
oner of war: another that was
waiting for me on the boat at
Liverpool from four of my
friends. 1t was on the cabin table
together with some beautiful red
rose buds when l eventually
made my way on board and was
one of the many moving mo-
ments of my life. 1t was a very
thoughtful way of saying bon
voyage.
At times I feel as my mother
used to say, terrified at our
smallness' when l think of all
there is out there in that blue
that we know about to say moth
/ ing of all that is there still to be
discovered. l was reading the
other day that Mars is making
its nearest approach to Earth for
many years and that one Of the
nearer distances would be
around 100000 miles. Now
Mars is the planet that I was
supposed to be born under ac-
cording to the astrologists and if
it can have any affect on me
from that distance just think
what events at a much nearer
distance together with all their
chain of reactions can do to
yours truly. Of course, presum-
ing whatever power is doing all
this affecting hasn't a one-way
channel, little me might be hav-
ing an effect of some sort on
Mars. Who knows!
Now some very pleasant things
can come out of thin air when
you least expect them. Like the
little cold bug that once came
along and took hold on my den
fist so that when l arrived at his
door in fear and trembling 1 was
told that the date was off. 1t
was a case of living for the mo-
ment then for a great joy filled
my heart and l trotted home
without waiting for the street
car. Then more recently there
was the time when. the doctor
told me that I wouldn't need
surgery when l was all prepared
to be laid out on the slab and
N7arved. If 1 could have 1 would
have turned handsprings all the
way up CRANKY street; I was
tempted to anyway.
Yes! there are so many good
things that happen to us COM
pared with all the sad and dis
appointing things in life that we
should be very thankful. I be-
lieve that for every prayer that
isn't answered as we would like
it or seemingly goes unanswered
at all there are many, many gifts
given us would we take note and
appreciate them. A story heard
or read some few weeks back
stays in my mind. In substance
| it was of one man telling another
how he loved roses but thought
it dreadful that such lovely
blooms had such sharp, painful
thorns; the other replied that he
had always thought it marvellous
that thorns should have such
beautiful blooms: so you see it is
largely matter of how we look
at life and approach it rather
than whit life can do to us.
This is a much easier thing to
recognize and talk about than it
is to do, but 1 feel that there is
hope for a great future for the
world and call that dwells there
in" if we can remember what is
done and said goes in to the blue
and as nothing in nature and
Gods world is wasted it must be-
come something, a power of
some sort and it is in our hands
to help make the power good.