The Bakery (A Parable)

Jul 30, 2012 14:54

There’s a village. With a bakery. A good bakery. Best bread around, rye, wheat, raisin, semolina, and a shelf of day-old at the back, on sale. There’s a hundred people in the village and every morning eighty-two of them line up to buy bread. The ones who saved money from their paychecks, or from their mother’s housekeeping money, or inherited ( Read more... )

ljidol, wholesale vs retail, the border of fiction and non-fiction, playing with form

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pixiebelle July 30 2012, 21:21:12 UTC
I loved the message in this one!

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whipchick August 5 2012, 22:01:52 UTC
Thank you!! I know YOU get it about health care, too :)

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myrna_bird August 2 2012, 13:51:15 UTC
Parables present some of the best teaching opportunities!

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whipchick August 5 2012, 22:02:04 UTC
I hope this one does :)

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alycewilson August 8 2012, 20:01:16 UTC
I really like this parable. You captured the attitudes well of the people involved in this debate. It's cool that we both took a similar approach to this topic.

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whipchick August 14 2012, 20:51:40 UTC
Thanks! And I very much enjoyed yours, too!

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notodette August 9 2012, 02:28:57 UTC
A great piece. I really loved it.

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whipchick August 14 2012, 20:51:50 UTC
Thank you!

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hell of a list of Idol recamendations livejournal August 10 2012, 02:48:46 UTC

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