Last night, I was thinking about one of my favorite expressions…
I had been helping my brother give away some of his daughter’s clothes. She’s growing fast, and size 6 clothes no longer fit her… but she had a lot of size 6 clothes!
We ended up with about six bags FULL of clothes ready to go to the donation center.
And just as I was about to throw my back out by trying to pick them all up at one time, it hit me…
Like a voice echoing through the generations…
“Discretion is the better part of valor”
I think about that expression all the time.
If you’re a non-native speaker, it basically means “being brave or noble doesn’t mean taking stupid risks.”
In this situation, it meant that I could take two trips and still be a good, strong uncle, or I could take one trip with six bags and be a crippled, unhappy uncle.
I ended up taking just two or three bags at a time…
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