TRUTH IN A COFFEE CUP

What's more common than a cup of coffee? One would hardly expect to discover anything profound there. Yet you might...

Sugar dumped from your teaspoon into the coffee makes a distinctive sound, like that of tissue paper quickly torn. And, if you pour creamer in just afterward, the creamer will ride the current created by the sugar.

What is the profundity, you ask? Perhaps that significant truths can be demonstrated in small, seemingly insignificant events.

CASTING ABOUT IN SOCK FEET

A colleague chastises me for slipping of my loafers and walking around the office in my sock feet. There is no unbearable stench or ugly toes poking through threadbare material. He just doesn't like feet. But why wear loafers (he does) and only remove them at home? Why obtain the ability to easily remove your shoes but never use it?

CONVENIENCE WITHOUT UTILITY IS MERE NOVELTY.