Ponder Great

I pondered today the phrase 'Great minds think alike.' and how many times I've heard it. I realized that if the sentence is reordered in reverse the statement becomes a much more valid representation of what occurs. So I pose this question regarding the time when two people think of the same thing, with the two phrases together forming a special type of chiasmus called antimetabole:

Do like minds think great or great minds think alike?

I think the former, 'like minds think great' to be most true and a less arrogant phrase since it implies that the thought not the mind is what is great, great being the center of the chiasmus and thus receiving more emphasis. Certainly greatness is the message of this chiasmus. Thinking greatly will I suppose eventually convert a mind into a great mind.

Here is the antimetabole, broken down in it's format a,b,c,c,b,a

a) Do like
b) minds think
c) great or
c) great
b) minds think
a) alike?

So, how is that for some ponder gardening?

The beans I planted are about three inches tall and the peas are all sprouting. I don't remember if I posted or not but I planted the rest of a two year old packet of patipan squash and they all seem to be growing. We'll see how they do in the fall weather. Last night I collected the cilantro seeds for next year's crop. I'm also saving some zucchini seeds.

This morning while making Mickey Mouse waffles, my two year old kept asking for the chocolate tomato. I had about a hundred tomatoes out and my four year old was helping me pull the tops of to freeze them all. For the longest time I just didn't understand and she became more and more insistent and would not eat her waffles without the alleged chocolate tomato. Finally, I asked her which 'chocolate tomato' she wanted to eat with her waffle breakfast. She pointed strait at the dark purple heirloom tomato I picked up at a friend's house last night and said, "That one."

I explained that jam would be better on her waffle and the tomato wasn't for breakfast. I just ate it in a sandwich for lunch. While it didn't taste like chocolate it was delicious and I've save some of the seeds for next year.