There are organisms that exist solely because they help each other; bees feed off the nectar of flowers and the flowers are able to pollinate each other because of the bees.
And what about the things humans have come up with?
We keep finding ways to make tasks more and more simple. Increasing our understanding of the world around us (and the things outside of it – we’ve been to the moon!) We’ve domesticated animals. We’ve created computer programs that can hold a basic conversation. We’ve created writing, so that we can communicate with people thousands of years in the future if we so desire, and still feel strongly the emotions of people hundreds of years in the past. We can feel incredible, intense love. We can melt down the strongest metals. We can FLY!
ianzin, I might have to print that list out for myself. Thanks for taking the time to put that together.
My contributions:
dolphins
chocolate-chip cookies
being inside, all warm and dry, and looking out the window to watch a storm pass through
taking a nap and drifting off to the sound of cicadas droning and a cat purring
Well, the ghost is at it again. First it took all my spoons and then my pants and my skirt. I don’t know, maybe it was throwing a dinner party in the afterlife. Hey, even dead people gotta have something to do.
I was amused when it left something on my sofa–an instruction book for operating a Eureka vacuum cleaner. I got the cleaner in 1990 and I know how to operate it and no book came with it. This thing just appeared on my sofa.
Yeah, I guess my living room is intended to host Dance Party From Hell and the ghost is telling me to clean up.
** ianzin**, such a good list, thanks for good reminders, and so many others here.
I’ve just gone through a two week period of emergency care of a beloved cat, diagnosed with a brain infection, which the very good compassionate veterinarians were not able to get an accurate diagnosis. We took her to the NC State Vet school, and, after a long time of good care and trying, she was not able to make it. They were so compassionate and professional—to have that experience in light of the recent health care focus was a nice lesson in people who practice medicine with long hours and great care.
Today, the mail brought a small plaster cast of my kitty’s pawprints that the neurologist had done after her death, with her name put in, wrapped in mesh organza bag and a handwritten note from the neurologist that was perfectly worded for our grief.
Such a small sweet thing, those kitty prints. I would have never thought of that, and had said that the autopsy was important because it is a teaching hospital, and her case was such a mystery… not particularly attached to a gone body for closure.
But, I look at these imprinted pawprints, my sweet girl gone on yond, so sudden, and am grateful for that thoughtfulness of those veterinarians who know that it matters. Good to know that it is protocol at NCSU, taught with heart. Good medicine there.
For all that the world is full of arseholes,criminals and the totally pig ignorant there are still a not inconsiderable number of complete strangers who will do a good deed for another complete stranger on the spur of the moment for totally no advantage to themselves,not even recognition of their act.
They help you and then go there own way.
This always inspires me and I try as best I can to emulate them when the opportunity arises.
