WHAM. "That will clear my sinuses for good."

I stood, the bridge of my nose smarting, the rest of the world blanked out. Under the apricot tree I had stood up suddenly and caught my nose on a low branch without warning. "RICE" "Restrict ..... ICE Must get some ice. A packet of frozen vegetables from the deep freeze. ... compression, elevation."

 I suppose it was pure coincidence that I received a scientific paper on using chaos guidance systems that very same day. Steering using the butterfly effect if you like. Apparently three body orbits, eg with Earth, moon and space vehicle are not quite stable.

At work I saw Student Orientation Day with new eyes, And heard with new ears the presuppositions implanted in these slightly dazed newcomers to the campus. And my mind wandered back over good classes and not so good classes and how their destiny had been shaped with a few words on Orientation Day. The earnest assertions falling by the wayside. The presuppositions absorbed like blotted paper.

Funny how new groups of people have something in common with space vehicles. In moments on the edge of chaos when the existing order has been loosened, a small but timely push when the right direction perchance appears leads to a different pattern being established.

Sometimes it takes the obvious to hit one smack between the eyes to realize there are moments of destiny and to act accordingly.

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