Chicken feet for the Soul

In a recent Time magazine interview, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, whose daily routine includes dodging assassination plots while pursuing elusive peace in the MidEast, reveals what he felt to be his ultimate source of energy and will-power amid the grinding pressures of his job.

”The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, plowing the vineyard, and guarding the melon fields at night,” he said. The farmer’s son, now 77, a battle-hardened Army commander and one of the world’s most important figures, apparently longed for the simple pleasures of tending crops in his private farm miles away from his official residence.

It was just a tiny segment of the interview and was not never brought up again. But the whole thing struck me like a haiku, and I just thought of sharing this with you all as I make my blogging debut. #