This And That
Random morning thoughts
Journal: 18 August, 2025, morning.
Various stuff… #oddsandends
Wouldn’t it be entertaining if a liar’s pants really did catch on fire? Cue the Twilight Zone music and a new “pants on fire” dance craze.
Facebook/Meta, you need to just stop telling me I can “have it my way, and only see stuff in my feed that I want to see,” because if you are wearing pants right now, they are “burning down the house!” You fibber, you. For shame.
How could we have ever thought insects were a nuisance and tried to get rid of them? How ignorant were we? They are quite literally keeping alive the biosphere component of the planetary ecosphere* we exist in. No insects, no us. Buh-bye!
* “An ecosphere is a planetary contained ecological system. In this global ecosystem, the various forms of energy and matter that constitute a given planet interact on a continual basis. The forces of the four Fundamental interactions cause the various forms of matter to settle into identifiable layers. These layers are referred to as component spheres with the type and extent of each component sphere varying significantly from one particular ecosphere to another. Component spheres that represent a significant portion of an ecosphere are referred to as a primary component spheres. For instance, Earth's ecosphere consists of five primary component spheres which are the Geosphere, Hydrosphere, Biosphere, Atmosphere, and Magnetosphere.”
If you actually read through all that, I salute you. And your determination.
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Can you say DRY? But, hey, not everything can be as dramatic and interesting as Trav and Tay talking about their relationship. Amazingly enough, we are not here just to be entertained. Sigh.
The moon this morning is a lovely crescent, the kind we used to draw in primary school. Drawing that was much more fun and satisfying than drawing a somewhat round lopsided circle, and how odd it is that in real life an enormous full moon is the bigger draw—it draws us outside like a magnet.
Speaking of drawing circles, can you draw a perfectly round circle? I saw a video once of someone doing that, quickly and effortlessly. Sometimes seemingly small things are quite amazing to watch. How do they do that? Is it practice? Or just innate talent? For me, that kind of talent is like people who “speak” mathematics. I mean, I’m good at math, you have to be to be successful in the profession I spent most of my life in, but that is a far cry from the people who are born “speaking” mathematics. So to speak. Their brains just work that way. Tom Yannarella speaks mathematics. He is amazing. And I would imagine that if you’d known Einstein or Hawking or any of those guys you would’ve thought the same of them.
People who are just best in class at what they do are fascinating, aren’t they? Cooks, artists, welders, writers, plumbers, carpenters, teachers, sculptors (my favorite people to admire because HOW DO THEY DO THAT?).
Why do we forgive some people anything and others don’t even get a small measure of mercy?
I was thinking this morning of Drucker’s axiom that “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”  Nothing changes, nothing changes, nothing changes, for seemingly forever, and then somehow amazingly fast, swoosh, everything changes in a heartbeat. How does that happen? Revolutions, I mean. When as if one body and one voice, the people rise up and say “Enough! We are not down with this! We are DONE!” A tsunami of No.
Do you have a 40-year-old refrigerator in your garage? We do.
There is something almost magical about changing your surroundings, whether it be painting the walls a fresh color, cleaning out years of storage junk, freshening up the outside of your home with new flowers and plants, or even buying one small plant in a pot and bringing it home with hope in your heart for its survival. #signsoflife If you are a little downhearted, I recommend doing this. For one thing, just getting up off the sofa and physically doing something constructive is enormously encouraging and energizing. It really works. And listen to music while you are doing this because music is a force multiplier for action. Maybe Van Halen’s Dance the Night Away, or Gabriel’s Solsbury Hill, or George Thorogood’s Bad to the Bone. Something with energy, something with pizzazz.
Well, this journal writing is already almost to the TLDR stage, so I will stop.
For now.
Lol. That “for now” sounds suspiciously like a threat but I promise I don’t mean it that way. 😁
PS: I added the photos because I LOVE THEM. Thank you for indulging me. He will always be The Man. 😍
Let’s all go out and have a good Monday, shall we? It’s really up to us whether we do or not. #aneverlastingtruth
#journalingalife