Words

Lots and lots and lots of words.

For those who are instantly repelled by the presence of too many, this is not for you.

Meaning.

What we bring to words, and what is agreed upon to be represented by words is the meaning of these words.  Starting with basics...humans have animal bodies that require air, water, shelter...so basic.

I want to be able to have arguments because I'm a debater personality...can you believe that?

But I want to have valuable arguments that are presenting and examining ideas that can alter the course of humanity.  Why?  Because along with a great number of other people I have an awareness that the way things are going on this planet is dooming us to a future filled with garbage, conflict and ultimate self-annihilation.

I have been aware of this from an early age and I have been cast out for my insights.  Marginalized, minimized and diminished.  So...an example might be the essay I wrote for university acceptance that was about an endangered species and used mankind as an example.  Those who read my essay decided to place me in rudimentary English classes at the university where I had a scholarship in chemistry.

I was subsequently placed in a normal English class, but circumstances continued to conspire against me, and I was finished before I started. Of course, I still feel like I'm starting now and what better time!

Now!  It's a word.  Do we have any agreement on its meaning?  If a disaster strikes, now is the time when people have to suck it up and get on with fixing what needs fixing.  If a disaster looms, now is the time to avert it if possible.  Those who think that disaster is inevitable and there's nothing we can do about it have clearly abdicated any responsibility for their part in seeing life persist and it was in that spirit that I recognized that the forces which dominated were run by people who had no sense of their part in seeing life persist.  That's untenable and it's most obvious forty-one years later in who is president of the United States. Now.  A word anchored in the past as soon as it's uttered.  A word that exists on a continuum of change that can include a segment of change like today, this minute, etc.

Bird song outside my window brings me back to the present. Breakfast for the family must be made.  Now.