awaiting an unexpected calamity

We seem to be on schedule at work. I rejoice tentatively while preparing for an unexpected calamity.

Roll on the weekend.

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79: Keeping the contract

After a great enmity is settled
some enmity always remains.
How to make peace?
Wise souls keep their part of the contract
and don't make demands on others.
People whose power is real fulfill their obligations;
people whose power is hollow insist on their claims.

The Way of heaven plays no favorites.
It stays with the good.

-- from the Tao Te Ching, translated by Ursula Le Guin