Not just another day . . .
It's Thor's day . . . and Okieland's version of a Summer Nor'Easterly continues to cool thing down to a warm, lovely Summer day . . .
“You think this is just another day in your life. It is not just another day. It is the one day given to you…. and the only appropriate response is gratefulness.” – Brother David Steindl-Rast
The fact that we are connected through space and time shows that life is a unitary phenomenon, no matter how we express that fact. We are not one living organism, but constitute a single ecosystem with many differentiated parts...nestled in each other....interdependence is an inexorable fact of life. – Lynn Margulis, in Maria Popova's Marginalian
Today is the birth date of Hunter Thompson. The initiator of “Gozo” journalism was born in 1937 Louisville, Kentucky. He and Richard Brautigan (I'll celebrate him on the 29th ) widened and refocused my world view.
We still need new metaphors. Only around 1-2 per cent of the entire human genome actually consists of protein-coding genes...at least some of the non-coding genome [most of it] is now known to be involved in regulating genes...Many disease-linked regions are in these regulatory sequences, where mutations don’t change the proteins themselves but, rather, the rate or chance of them being made at all. So, to understand how life really works at the genomic level, we need to understand gene regulation. And that...is not just eye-wateringly complicated but not at all what we have learnt to expect from the conventional molecular biology of the past 50 years. – Philip Ball in Aeon, “We are Not Machines.”
Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world-or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public property-or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons-or locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it matters who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will wish you had voted. – Hunter S. Thompson