Category Archives: Observation

MLK

Who is your favorite historical figure?

It’s not really history if you’ve lived it but I greatly admire Martin Luther King, Jr.

He always maintained a harmonious dignity and respectful rhetoric.

He was a true peace maker.

He paid dearly for his efforts on behalf of equality and social justice.

Given our current civil status, I can only hope that his martyrdom was not in vain.

I am still puzzling this out

Darwin was wrong. Or only partially right.

We aren’t descended in a straight line lineage from one hominid or another.

I Need the Cliff Notes.

Our ancestry, that is, human ancestry, is more complicated than that.

This is intriguing and fascinating, and I don’t have time to fully realize where this fact leads.

Send me the “for dummies” crib book. Please.

Emotional response

🍑🌏⚘️🪻🌷🌻💯💌💟❤️🤸🤸‍♀️

These emojis just aren’t who I am, and yet, in some ways, they are an improvement.

I speak of the suggested responses my cellphone setup offers in text mode.

I can shoot a starry sun out or a cup of hot coffee to greet my friends.

The options often brighten my day. They send a kind of “enough said” message out that represents me in my best light.

The Human Story

It used to be a much simpler human history in my school days. Now, they tell me that evolution wasn’t as linear as we were taught.

Humans and Neanderthals and other hominids all roamed the earth at the same time.

Our earliest direct relatives emerged from Africa some 50 thousand years ago.

Others of the 15 to 20 types of early humans continued to co-exist with them.

So I am thinking, it’s kind of akin to cats. Look at how diverse they are. Look at how many different species live in jungles and mountains and homes across the world.

Juggling acts

How do you balance work and home life?

Since I never had children at home and married late in life, the balancing act was never a big concern.

Single people can work longer hours with no effect on their home life.

That’s the theory.

When you do not have family or a partner at home, you feel carefree. The truth may just be a little different from the perception.

It’s a documented fact [and we women love to cite it] that married men live longer. There could be undocumented evidence that marriage benefits women as well.

In part, we could say it’s because men are cared for; that’s just one side of the picture. They also have to care for their family or partner.

If being unattached means you are carefree, it can also mean you are free to be careless.

Married people, both men and women, have cares. They need to be careful in the best possible way.

Being without a care in the world is overrated. Caring with the worries it brings is a better place for all of us.

There may be more to balance between our homes and our offices, but we are fortunate to have all those balls in the air.