Oh Crap! – Musings of an Unperfect Mommy

Wednesday Wisdom

July 30, 2015

And now for another edition of Wednesday Wis…ah…what? It’s Thursday? Really? Well, ok, but we’ll still call it Wednesday Wisdom just to distinguish it from the other posts. Okay, so here we are for another edition of Wednesday Wisdom.

I recently bought three glorious old books written by Peg Bracken – “The I Hate To Cook Book”, “I Hate to Housekeep Book”, and the “I Hate to Cook Almanac”. Each one is an absolute gem and I can’t wait to thoroughly go through them. This morning, I was reading the chapter in the housekeeping book about what to do when you feel miserable. She talked about a quote from Herman Melville that was in his book, Moby Dick, about something called the universal thump. Well now, that seems familiar! Let’s look at the quote:

“Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about-however they may thump and punch me about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is in one way or other served in much the same way-either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round and all hands should rub each other’s shoulder blades and be content.”

In other words, we should not worry when these things of bad things happen because they happen to us all – the universal thump – in one way or another. We should be content knowing this and then help each other out – rub each other’s shoulder blades – through the trial. It might be hard to put these words into practice, and I think it takes a lifetime, but I think it is well worth trying.

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