In my young mind, when my grandma used Igbo (African) proverbs like ”no matter how much a goat frowned its face, its owner still had to take it to the market to sell’‘ I literally thought she was talking about her goats. 
She used to raise some goats that were either sold or killed to celebrate special occasions, and I recall looking at the faces of the goats with curious eyes to determine how they frowned.
It took maturity for it to dawn on me that the proverb was meant to address issues that we were either dodging to do or were difficult to do, yet they needed to be done.
Maybe, I should liken myself to the frowning goat in the proverb above.
For the past few days including today; though today has been super-charged busy for me, I have found every busy reason to dodge sitting down and working on my book.
I know that I could find half an hour to squeeze in yet…
Well, I say to myself, the book will not write itself lady!
Get moving! No matter how many excuses made it still has to get done right?
Like my people would also say; ”if the child likes, he should play pranks all day, his portion to weed at the farm will still wait for him.”
I am sure there are other frowning billy and nanny goats as well as pranksters like my dear self, who are using all the bucking tactics available to skirt around the needful 😉 ‘fess up to your misdeeds and lets get it rolling.
Once again, izzyasabee thank you for the invitation to take part in the three quote challenge which I have concluded and will be moving on to the next round of invitation from Vincent Wambua.
I call on these gems of my blogging World to join the fun.
a cooking pot and twisted tales 
Lol I am glad I am not the only one who got confused by the proverbs, the only difference was that mine were in Hausa.
But yes your not alone.
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Good to know 🙂
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Oh goodness, I am a real frowning goat! I have used the flimliest of excuses not to get things done that had to be done and even feel virtuous about it….
A wonderful quote and thought provoking.
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🙂 lol at the virtuous part. I think that sound.s very familiar to me. Thank you for your visit, I really chuckled at your comments. Regards
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Glad you laughed 🙂
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Enjoy your take on an interesting proverb – it is an apt quotation to describe me also. I love the image of the other quotation, “mountains…stones. Good stuff.
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Thanks my dear grandma Oneta. Your little hands are lucky grandkids 🙂
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Ok. Now you have to explain the “little hands… lucky grandkids” part to an interested spectator. Loved the proverbs and was especially encouraged by ” If you want to move mountains tomorrow, you must start by lifting stones today”.
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Ha! Ha! Margie, I was talking about Oneta’s grandchildren and great-grandchildren not the goats kids 😉 I love that quote a whole lot. I remind myself about it all the time.
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So full of wisdom!! Have you set a deadline for this New York Times bestseller? (no pressure) 😀
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No deadline yet my dear. Finish the draft, then send it out for editing and a whole bunch of rigmarole before I can say Uhuru 🙂 Thank you my dear. I hope you are feeling better now.
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Much better! Thanks!
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Good (((hugs)))
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