To Still the mind!

There are days, and then there are days. In my case it is not days...but years. There is much already written but not here with me so that I feel as if I've had a limb severed.

The Query has never changed: why? Unlike the past when books, magazines, newspapers, television kept one up to date, the Internet has added a dimension that I simply love! I can read, hear and see in two hours what it would have taken days before. I can view as many sides of an issue as I want all are well written pieces by numerous people with integrity and intelligence or not.

So my blog had only one published entry, because I hit the wrong button. The post however is about my newest nephew who is now doing perfectly normal. Thank someone's God. Although my brother says I am an atheist, I still say that I am an agnostic. I usually keep two windows open and can check the spelling or meaning of anything instantly! Wonderful, that.

My son dropped in, literally. He lives in Denver and found that there was a flight he could take in two hours that would put him in California with a return flight that would allow us to spend almost forty-eight hours together. Ah technology. It was absolutely the best Mother's Day gift he could have given me. In addition, although my daughter and her kids had flown out earlier to be with our oldest granddaughter at her 21st birthday, my youngest son dropped by to spend time with the brother and us. Greatest weekend in a long time.

Anyway, (my newest kitten is trying to type also) I have a need to write, maybe not well, but certainly long and enough that maybe I can get the mind to still. There isn't really much to write on the current events affecting this country and the world. But, that is not my main interest. My main interest is the why of the thing.

The thing is: how did we get from the beginning to this?

Sometime in the absolute distant past...say billions of years ago. Something one celled developed and became life. Then something of that beginning cell crawled out of the depth of those oceans eons ago, again billions. Some of those crawled back into the that sea. Were they the lucky ones? The others stayed and as life is, continued on towards the last second, of the last minute, of the last hour of the year of beginnings. We had arrived. Hairy, probably glaring, scared but curious with something called a brain. It had grown to such a size that the grey matter literally folded in on itself to allow itself to fit the boney structure covering it. We had lost tails, gills and we now stood up and our eyes were positioned in front on our faces. We were scared. There were things truly out in the night, and day as well, that looked to us as food. We looked at other things as food. We, had the same imperative as any other animal, then and now: to survive. Survival meant food, procreation and safety. Actually, not that much different from today, 6 million years later.

We left our birthplace, probably the continent of what today is Africa. We wandered all over the earth. We learned to cross glaciers, bodies of water and moved from continent to continent, evolving, evolving, evolving, until we crested a hill, so far as we know at this moment, somewhere in Europe as Cro-Magnons and looked at Neanderthals, a branch of our family, right in the face. We still don't know 100% what happened, but the Neanderthals disappeared...as other branches surely did and Cro-Magnon, us, became supreme. So far as we know, today.

Cro-Magnon, we still don't know "where" they officially came from. But we know that they are modern man and have taken over the Earth. And until about forty thousand years ago, their only offense was to gain intelligence, creativity and fortitude. Their curiousity never faltered. They had it simple, survive, procreate, safety. No different than today, except, that for the first time in the history of this planet and race of man, we are in serious danger of wiping ourselves off the map and every living thing as well!! What changed in those last few thousands of years. Well, that will be what this series of posts will be about: my opinion and the The Query...why!!