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鲜花不会介意破花盆

      ①我家的房子就在医院门诊部对面,我们住在楼下,楼上出租给那些来医院看病的人。

      ②一个夏天的晚上,我正准备晚饭,外面传来了敲门声。我打开门,看见了一个长相可怕的老年男人。“天,他比我8岁的孩子高不了多少。”我盯着他干瘪蜷缩的躯体心里想。更可怕的是他的脸,肿胀扭曲,黝黑并且粗糙。然而,他的声音是愉悦的,他说道:“晚上好,我过来看看你这儿有没有房间可以住一晚上。我今天早上从东海岸过来就诊,要到明天早上才有回去的客车。”

      ③他说,他从中午就开始寻找住处却没有成功,好像所有人都没有房间。“我猜想是因为我的脸……我知道它看上去挺可怕,但是医生说再治疗一段时间……” 有那么一会儿我犹豫了,但他接下来的话说服了我:“我可以睡在门廊的摇椅上,客车早上走得很早。”我告诉他我可以给他找张床,但要放在门廊里。我回到里面,继续做好了晚饭,当我们要吃饭时,我问那位老人是否要跟我们一起吃。“不,谢谢,我已经吃得很饱了。”

      ④收拾完餐盘,我走到门廊跟他聊了几分钟。很快我就发现,在他那瘦小的身体里容纳着的是一个宽广的心灵。他告诉我,他靠打鱼的收入维持着女儿、女儿的五个孩子以及她那终生残废的丈夫的生计。他告诉我这些时,语气中没有丝毫的抱怨。事实上,他在说每一句话之前都会首先感谢上帝的赐予。他对痛苦没有伴随着自己的疾病——很明显是一种皮肤癌——心怀感激。

      ⑤睡觉前,我在孩子们的房间里给他支了张帆布床。第二天早上,当我起来的时候,床被整齐地折叠了起来,那个瘦小的老人在门廊里。他谢绝了我的早饭,但就在离开之前,他踌躇着说:“我下次来就诊时还可以过来住吗?我不会麻烦你很多。”他停顿了一会儿接着说道,“你的孩子让我感觉像在家里一样。”我告诉他,我们欢迎他再来。

      ⑥他第二次来我家时,是早上7点多。他还带了一条大鱼,还有一个我所见过的最大的牡蛎。他说他是当天早上刚剥的壳,这样牡蛎才能很新鲜。我知道他得赶早上4点的汽车,所以很难想象他要起多早,才能做这些事情。

      ⑦接下来的几年,他经常在我家过夜,从来没有一次没带给我们鱼、牡蛎或自己种的蔬菜。其他时间,我们会经常收到邮包。想想他为了邮寄这些东西要步行3公里,想想他挣的那点儿钱,我们更是加倍感激。

      ⑧当我收到这些礼物时,我常常会想到他第一次离开我家的那个早上,隔壁邻居唠叨的那些话:“你昨晚留宿了那个丑陋的男人?我把他赶开了!留宿这种人会吓跑其他客人的!”但是,我们一家都对能结识他心存感激,从他身上,我们学会了心平气和地接受磨难,我们也学会了珍视生命中的美好。

      ⑨最近,我去朋友的温室参观,她带着我观赏鲜花,我们走到了其中最美的一株——一株盛开的金菊前。让我大吃一惊的是,那株金菊生长在一个满是凹痕,锈迹斑斑的铁桶里。

      ⑩朋友解释道:“我的花盆不够了。我深知这株花的美丽,我想它不会介意生长在一个旧桶里面。”朋友肯定想知道为什么我会笑得那么开心,那会儿我正在想象天堂之中的一个场面:“这是最美丽的一个,”上帝走到老渔夫那令人赏心悦目的灵魂跟前,他也许会说,“他不会介意生长在这个卑微的躯体里的。”

 (选自《时代青年•哲思》有删节 李佳 译)

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     An Iowa elementary school principal was taped onto a gym wall by his students on Friday,November 5th,2014.Principal Ryan Castle of Colorado Elementary School in Iowa,America let 27 students in his school tape him to a gym wall.He stayed up there,with his both feet suspended(悬浮) above the floor,from the morning until lunch time.

     Ryan Castle earlier promised to the students that if they sold 10,000 fall festival tickets,he agreed to be taped onto a gym wall at his school.Unexpectedly,the students had sold 11,000 fall festival tickets by October the 31st.He kept his promise and he let the students tape him onto a gym wall.

     Twenty-seven top-selling students were allowed to tape Ryan Castle up.Ryan Castle was photographed wearing a fake mustache because it was Mustache Day for the school.It was not the first time that principals were taped onto a wall in America.Ryan Castle's case comes after at least three other recent cases of school principals being taped up on the wall for a good cause.

     On last Wednesday,Jay Woller of La Crescent Elementary School in Minnesota America was taped onto a wall after $21,000 was collected by his students through fundraising.And last month,Randy Ten Pas of Hull Christian School in Iowa America was taped onto a wall with duct tape.He was taped on a 300-feet-tall building wall in his school—as a symbolic reward for students' fundraising efforts coming to $3,300.Randy Ten Pas was photographed wearing a green cap and with a drawing of the Denver Broncos logo(商标) next to him.At St.Mary Catholic School in Orange,Texas,principal Donna Darby offered a similar ticket-selling challenge to students in September.He was also taped onto the wall in the end.They kept their word and set good examples to their students.