I dream of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Not often nor in any great detail, ATP (a high energy macromolecule essential to every living thing on the planet because it is our “energy currency”) winds its way through my dreams like a three-stranded woven cord, sometimes just itself on a dark background of a nearly empty dream and sometimes it comes across the stage of a dream in progress, taking the shape of something else. Last time it was a large black cat, a panther I suppose, from its size and ...
This was certainly a week that will go down in the memory book as one of the strangest I've participated in. I had to review previous entry to see where I left off with the wayward nephew. I had told him I would call him the night following the news about second son Dan going back to Iraq because I wanted time for wife Ruth and I to digest this development. Even so a voice mail gets left for me on the phone which annoys me and I go into my favorite mantra of "Nobody ...
What I really wanted to blog about from the Canada trip was the places we visited. Lothlorien, Rivendell, Fangorn, and Rohan. Actually they weren't called that, but that's what it seemed like. We went to Fangorn and Rivendell in Canada and oh! The trees we saw. Really put my life into perspective. I mean, I've gone around just thinking about my life and how important it is (to me) and that there wasn't much else that really MATTERED. This was all unconsciously thought, mostly, until I saw The Trees. ...
Humans have tried a number of strategies to modify our behavior. Two of the key ones have been religions and secular ethical codes that come with punishments built in. History shows that neither has much of a track record with modifying human behavior toward compassion, tolerance or just getting along: holy wars and secular wars; prisons and cults. And yet we (meaning human beings) don’t have as many public hangings as we used to. Slavery, while currently on the increase, has decreased significantly ...
I've just said hello, But now I must wave goodbye. Send my greetings to everyone, My regards to the sky. I said I would leave At three sharp this day, But I can't keep promises to myself, in any way not even to my parents --do as they say But not for me! Ho, no way! That goes as far As my blog is concerned. And as of today I've definitely learned A lot from my experience In litnet, ...
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