Today is the first day we will be implementing Show and Tell Wednesdays!

We wanted to keep the blog project active on ALL weekdays, so Wednesday is now the day in which we will have little “show and tell” sessions. Instead of posting original creative works, we will post links to, or excerpts from things we have read, seen, or heard recently that are of particular interest.

As my first contribution to Show and Tell Wednesdays I will post a link to a very interesting and thought-provoking short story I read recently called The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas.

http://harelbarzilai.org/words/omelas.txt

The author took her ideas from a quote by William James:

Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which…utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torture, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?

PS–How do you like the awesome header graphic I created for Show and Tell Wednesdays?