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What is Wisdom

This was a six-minute free write assignment on the topic of wisdom. Wisdom doesn't always take a whole lot of time, sometimes when it is ready, it just does.
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What is Wisdom?

Solomon.
My grandmother's knee.
Not sure, but I think of Psalms or Ecclesiastes,
and about how there's nothing new under the sun
Wisdom is - like beauty is, or love is.
Wisdom does.

It is all those "best things" we measure our judgement against.
It is taking an umbrella on a rainy day.
It is knowing when to and when not to say.
It is at age 40 not making the same mistakes as age 20.
It is time gently rapping at experience's door
or rain pelting heavily on tin.
You can't help but hear it, you know when it comes in.

Wisdom is as widsom does and for some better than others.
It escapes us like salt through a sifter,
at times smothers us like an avalanche
or comforts us like a warm blanket

Wisdom, time tested and manifested in days that lie behind and ahead
It is the thing we know and don't know,
it is the practice of understanding self
and perhaps even Gandelf - from Lord of the Rings
Wisdom rings -too loudly and clangs in the ears of the deaf that cause death from lack of hearing- tolerance.
Fearing the Lord is Wisdom.


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