A NICE STORY of PERSERVEERANCE

DUKE GOT THIS IN EMAIL TODAY!!!! It is called:

A carrot, an egg, and a cup of coffee...

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up like a CRYING BABY WOMAN.

Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil. In the first, she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil, without saying a word.

In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished ALL THE CRAP out and PUTTED in a bowl. IT WAS A SOUP, coffee with CARROTS and EGGS.

Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity-boiling water-but each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak and MUSHY, which she proved bY TAKING ONE AND SMEARING it in her stupid dauhters face.

The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior. But, after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened.

The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.

"Which are you?" she asked her daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? "

ISN'T THAT GRATE. DUKE's MOM did a simalar thing once, when DUKE WAS VERY young. She put three BIG POTTS on the stove and boiled up some water! She put a golf ball in one pot, a FRISBEEEE in another, and she took off one of her COMBAT boot and put in the third.

And she made me watch and watch while they boiled. NOTHING HAPPEND. So Mom said "DO YOU UNDERSTAND!!! EARLY BIRDS eat worms!! E PLURABUS UNUM."

And DUKE did understand, sort of. It was a proufond influence.