Rev. Robin Hanford

The story of The Tortoise and the Hare must be one of the most well-known in the world. Yet, I struggle to think of the last time I heard it read or even read it myself. I suspect that the reason is that I did not really need to read it again. Aesop’s fable is so simple and so well drilled into our children through schooling that we could all probably tell it from memory. A comment such as “slow and steady wins the race” comes to our minds so easily and so often, and with it all the imagery of tortoises and hares to last a life time. All of this is likely what makes it such a successful fable. It is a simple story that presents the moral it wishes to impart to us clearly and with consistency.