He buys his freedom and he counts his change,
Then he lets the wind his days arrange
And he calls the tide his master.
"The Ways of Man" by Gordon Bok; FSI-68
Thats the song that the Oh, the fine long summer days comes from.
and got me off on some weird tangent yesterday.
V-day... dreaded V-Day... picking up stuff... writing stuff... and about these cards, do people really keep them forever and remember and appreciate them? or are they like cut flowers, and on a limited life, to be discarded when finished... in a very short term... I'm not a big fan of cut flowers, mostly becuase they are so temporal. Maybe that is a bonus to others, but i'd much rather see them flower and watch them grow, where they are supposed to, not in some pot of water slowly killing the cells one by one... its like torture.
No plants don't have nerves, or a collection of neurons called a brain/ganglia, but they are alive, they have a vascular system, and they die. The cells die just like animal cells...
Heck humans could cut a finger off and keep the tissue alive for a while... how pretty would that be too look at? Sure that's abit morbid... but the parallel is somewhat similar... and yes i'm a botanist by education and training, does that come across at all?
-It was a no-dab ride home last night in the snow covered roads... a clean 2 miles, 2 stop lights, 10 stop signs and 9 turns... at least that's how i think i counted it up... no not a big deal... but considering traffic and weather and road conditions... not too bad, of course that's normal... just the snow covered roads made it exciting... that and the laptop in the messenger bag...
Big Jonny's got a new baby girl... Big up props to the man! What a life changing time for that guy... here's to hopin he manages to do okay with the whole juggling act that life becomes... that it becomes if you are a responsible parent!
i had a host of linkage that piled up somewhere but its gonna have ta show up later... i'm gonna blow this popsicle stand... get on the bike and 'brave' the 40°F weather we have out there
almost single digits monday morning and its now hit 40... how about that!
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