What do Wynton Marsalis and Chet Atkins have in common? What about the new menu at Beauregard's and the regard for New Woman political candidates?
Or the movies "God Forgives, I Don't," "Bullets, Blood and a Fistful," and "The Point Men"; or the shows "Glee" and "The Choir: Unsung Town"?
Who do you like better: Eileen Ivers or Natalie MacMaster? Claire Lynch or Rhonda Vincent?
Spiders slowly turn our cathedral-ceilinged living room into a crisscrossed, dustcollecting magical piano or harp in the sky.
Should you feed woodpeckers by letting mud-daubing wasps nest on the side of your house?
To be alive in this time (when I, as I am, can be alive in no other) is a question I cannot answer.
Are leaders leaders because of the luck of their birthday? Are birthdays real?
Do people have a real sense of humour or do they only laugh the way they're socially-programmed to react?
Finding new ways to insightfully poke fun at what we adults call progress in order to make children think for themselves what progress will be called when they're grown up is more difficult than my trainers told me they'd be.
Amazingly we have, for the most part, the ability to take our time and consider the repercussions of our actions and the locaglobal effect on the future of this moment but we rarely do. We enjoy being ourselves too much in the moment to consider others in moments we may or may not spend with them.
I ought to know. I cheer for the hare more often than for the tortoise.
Therefore, let us consider the species as a momentary occurrence.
We will not live as long as a star. We can harvest starpower but not the star's power.
What am I doing today for which I want to remember myself tomorrow?
What is happening in this moment that does not include an identity known as me to which I gladly contribute anonymously?
Can the United States become a national multiparty political system? Can we have a permanent Comedy Party headed by the likes of the Paulsens/Colberts of the humour scene, a permanent Independent Party headed by the Palins of the nontraditional scene, and the usual extreme right/left parties trying to splinter the middle class - every one of them pulling a significant number of votes during locanational elections?
If we can't be nonpartisan, can we be a real plurality, requiring real cooperation to accomplish national goals?
Oh, wait, in this parallel universe blog, nations and corporations do not exist, being merely labels for temporary states of existence.
Be concerned that you can poke fun at your former rival/enemy without repercussion because it means the new rival/enemy taking the old one's place may be worse, less easy to convince, more willing to act unilaterally and/or more subtle in its dominance/manipulation of you.
This is such a small planet, a tiny fraction of the active universe. To rule it was a goal for our species the previous xxxx thousand years and now that it's no longer a limiting factor, ruling it feels like being a big fish in a small pond.
Even so, we live nowhere else (yet). However, I [(have thought/acted)(will think/act)] as if we already populate a wider expanse in our galaxy than one or two rocks stuck circulating around a star.
I have pointed my microtelescope at this planet for too many months now. Time to look back out at the stars and ponder a future greater than what we've lived so far.
Does string theory have a place in a future outside the spider webs of my house? Hmm...
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