but my doctor can take one look at the black-and-white image and notice its subtle features. I would see only a blur, whereas he would discern a broken bone. My doctor and I may be looking at the same object, but only one of us has insight. Proverbs trains our eyes to separate the impor­tant from the inconsequential, the significant from the background static of life. At the conclusion of the Trojan War, the Greek hero Odysseus faced a long journey home. His trek became known as his odyssey. Before