Life is a firehose of information but sometimes we just want a sweet drop of truth. I saw a hummingbird dip its food snagger in a red honeysuckle flower recently. Yum! One sip! Good!
I ran into a couple who had just celebrated fifty years of marriage this week. They agreed that to do that, they had done some serious shutting up. Less is more, over the long haul.
Sometimes we want for small when buried in too much big. Yesterday after being social all day, my pajamas and my bed and my laptop were just right to help me restore. Simple beats complex, at the end of most days.
In the end, I went to sleep. We all do, always. Sleep is a good simple for it is simply accepting the day. It is more; the simple act of going to bed each night is preparation for death, the moment when we give in to what was, with no more complicated attempts to change that.
Wise stuff? We need it. More. It explains the world.
Think elegant explanations, like Kepler’s elliptical orbit of the planets,; the beauty is often in the simplicity.
And so, we love a theory and we love a proverb. Short truth delights by telling all with some. We call such collected truth, wisdom literature.
Wisdom literature is ancient, oral, axiomatic, classic, lasting. It is often pithy, punchy, with a pinch of sarcasm, wit and humor tossed in for seasoning. It skewers us, in a way we like, stabbing sence into our psyches. It shapens up the mundane into the sublime.
Want some?
I invite you to visit http://modernproverbs.net
Thrive! 
Wonderfully written tale, would make a great 3rd/4th grade addition to the earth/life science curricula. Seems it’s going to be a bit too long a story to be called a fable. Collaborating with Brenda would turn this into a best seller.