All animals innately fear only one thing: Fire.
All humans seek fire, create fire and want to control fire.
Have we always sought out fire or was there a time when we feared the flames?
How did we learn to run to the heat instead of away from it?
Is our desire for fire the one thing that separates our animal instinct from beast?
How does fire anneal our cultural covenants when we create our most basic moral, aesthetic and intellectual memes?
We are bundled energy.
Electricity bounces within us.
We create our own current.
We are our own batteries.
The easiest way to share our proprietary energy is through a handshake.
Shaking hands with someone is a heat exchange few of us realize -- an osmosis, if you will -- of two primary essences of life.
Have you ever used the power in your body to heat up your hands to purposefully try to heal someone by touching them?
I'm not talking about checking a child for a fever with your palm or massaging a sore muscle.
I am talking about the determined decision by you to bring all the power and force you have in your body to heat up your hands with the direct intent of using your electricity to heal another person without flexing your hands in any way.
I heard a saying the other day that everyone dies two times.
You die the first time when you body dies.
You die the second time when the last person who remembers you dies.
Do you believe in two lifetimes or do you think we only die once?
Are you only your body and merely a memory in others?
Is the human need to be remembered in death what drives people to create buildings -- giant headstones in the form of monuments -- and to create physical things beyond children that will be preserved and protected by those who never knew the person but appreciate the aftereffects of the written work of Art, the musical composition or the stone sculpture?
If memory isn't everlasting and is bound by the body, is the easiest way to achieve immortality through the Arts and architecture?
A good friend of mine in Nebraska -- who shall remain nameless unless he steps forward here -- sent me a great email yesterday full of fascinating thoughts and feelings as well as the following riff on unsavory and selfish parents:
I overheard a conversation the other day. The quick manipulation of morality to stretch doing the right thing was miserably revealing.
One guy asked another if he were driving a car and a dog ran into the street and he hit the dog and broke its leg, would he stop to find the owner or help the dog?
How will the world end and will you be alive to see its demise?
Is it better to own 100% of one thing or one percent of 100 things?
What is your favorite search engine and why?
If you think you know something -- is that enough -- or do you feel a responsibility to back up your knowledge with outside facts?
An Old World friend of mine taught me a long time ago how to recognize if someone was born into "Old Money" or not.
You identify Old Money not by their houses or cars or their shoes or by the watches they wear. Those tokens are nouveau trinkets indicating no generationally seeded wealth.
Those born into wealth never move their elbows.
Old Money elbows are never engaged from their station on each side of the body because that unbending posture suggests no manual labor has ever been necessary. Staff is paid to do all the heavy lifting.
If Old Money engages their elbows, they insult their ancestors while betraying their genetic entitlement and "that just isn't done."
I... keep... trying... to type... this without... moving... my elbows!
Is the "Devil you know" truly better than "the Devil you don't know?"
Is funny always funny?
Or does the sense of what's funny change with the cultural ebb-and-flow over time of what certain people find funny?
In a recent thread of comments here, one regular commenter made a "joke" about work where the new management team were "Nazis" and the workers were "Jews."
There is a fine line between doing something right and just doing something.
The bright line between those two efforts is defined by: The intention to add Art to the job.
If you fart in public, do you:
A). Make a joke out of it.
B). Quote a medical study saying everyone farts 14 times a day.
C). Pretend you didn't deal it.
Is snoring the sign of a deep-sleep state or it is an ominous warning something is wrong?
Do people know they snore? I have been accused of snoring but then I realize the person accusing me is only hearing her own snoring! At least that's what I think I think. It's hard to know what's happening when you're asleep.
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