Volume 7 · The Long Afternoon · Essay 33
Bumblebee Problem
Every problem has a door labelled with its own name. Bumblebee Problem is such a door, and it opens.
The problem persists because it is usually treated as someone else's. Once you accept that the naming of it includes you, solutions stop being exotic and start being obvious.
It is worth keeping in your pocket not because it is always right, but because it is always available. A tool you carry beats a perfect tool you left at home.
Think of the grandfather who plants a mango tree he will never sit under. Ask him why, and he will look at you as if the question were the strange thing.
In the end, life asks only whether we were awake while it happened. A word is a lamp. This one is now yours to carry.