Someone recently posted that we must be careful using the
crutches an bottles image in public talks and I agree. It
is important to be sensitive to our audiences and clients,
whose struggles, life stories and friends struggles
may not be immediately obvious to us.
  However, I think that it is a good image and when I sent
it to my parents for their interest and amusement, my
mother sent back the following suggestion:
>I wonder who created this parable, and what Carnation, etc. would think of
>its appearing in an employee newsletter, or stockholder's report?
  Naomi Bar-Yam PhD

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