It Takes Two Shorts
Description: Workplace communication teaches seasoned employees that wordiness is correlated with undesirable labor. When an incoming memorandum, message, or project brief spans several dense paragraphs, suspicious alarm bells ring immediately. Simple favors or quick approvals require minimal text, whereas complex schemes designed to delegate unwanted responsibilities always hide behind elaborate prose. Flattery, background context, and convoluted justifications are merely wrapping paper disguising an exhausting assignment that someone else is attempting to offload onto your desk. Scanning past the opening lines feels like walking voluntarily into an ambush. This humor validates workplace suspicion, proving that excessive prose usually heralds distress.
Description: The “Middle Way” in Buddhist spiritual practice exemplified by a bird is more than a belief - it is the truth. It’s also common sense. Wisdom without compassion can be cold and harsh. Compassion without wisdom can be sappy stupidity, what's often called "idiot compassion." The bird needs both wings to fly. The background for these words is a beautiful photograph taken by Sharma Abhishek, courtesy of Pexels, and slightly modified by me for this beautiful design.
