A dichotomy of parenthood and husbandry
A dichotomy of parenthood and husbandry – consider the toil of childbirth and the future demands of parenthood while a peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
Dano
Collective abandonment of ambition
Ambition seems a restless and solitary endeavor, stern, designing, pitiless and totally self-serving. Your potential only realized by solitary accomplishment, fingers stretched towards the next appealing enchantment of rank or fame or power.
Cincinnati, corn and pigs
Cincinnatians may not all want to admit it, but the town will always be Pigcity – a reference to the time during the early to mid-19th century when Cincinnati was known as Porkopolis.
Pig tail – impulse vs. reason
Impulse vs. reason is a constant struggle where two mutually exclusive entities move in a continuous contradiction to each other in an arduous quest to capture a pig with a slippery tail.
Thinking about ham
What do you see when you look at a pig? A kindred spirit, a creature much like you? And the very next moment, you see a beast, a stranger, just an animal. Now the pig is a fellow creature, like Freddy, Wilbur, Porky or Piglet… And now he’s just a mouthful of ham.