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My left hand. In all the universe it is unique.
It has a variety of good uses, and a few
questionable uses.
This morning I got to fooling around with the
geotagging feature on my cell phone camera.
When I took the above photo my hand was located
at Latitude 47.65395, Longitude -117.44043 —
according to the geotagging on the photo and the
little Earth-based system we've developed here.
Admittedly, I suppose there is a certain margin
of indeterminacy involved in that Latitude and
Longitude figure.
As to my hand's specific location out in all of this…
…that's a little more problematic.
But it's still unique even so. One of a kind.
So I guess I had better take care of it.
A week or so ago I was up at Deaconess Hospital
getting some lab work done. Since it was hot,
I sought out the shade of a little tree as I was
waiting for the bus back home. Its bark looked
smooth and yet rough at the same time, and here
and there it looked to have little cuts on it
— where those came from I don't know. I know
nothing about trees. There is bark and there
is the stuff under the bark and then there
are leaves, that's the extent of my current
knowledge.
The tree was made up of millions, perhaps
billions of cells. Probably as many cells as
there are stars in our own galaxy. Each cell
with its own chemical pathways that it needs
in order for the cell to function. Each cell in
the tree unique. And the tree itself, like
my hand, unique.
On the universal scale there is Life…and then
there is the opposite…Not Life. I want to be
and hope I am on the side of Life. All of this
is perhaps obvious. Consider it a prayer.
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Originally posted by edwardpiercy:
I dare you! :lol:Ok I double dare you!! :lol:make the soon to be famous post : "The Location of My 21st finger in Space"
… I do and it's one of those I easily can follow … leaves me humble and getting a glimpse of what I call universal bliss …thanks, Edward 🙂
@ Angeliki.I don't think I'm really OCD about my hands or anything, it's just that the two things that are easiest for me to take pictures of are my hands and feet. Anything else might get me kicked off of Opera. :p@ Dirk.You welcome, Dirk: It is Sunday after all. Which doesn't make much difference to me anymore in terms of how days go but it does hit some references from the past.
LMAO.Uh….no.:lol::D
😆 you have to admit it has a catchy title :p
oh man, oh man! these hands of yours are big celebrities by now! :heart:I just imagine you as a baby playing with your hands for hours…. training those hands for having a glorious future in the earthy world, the private world and in the spot light! :p
@ Angeliki.Well, maybe I'll do that sometime up the road. :)@ Scott.Next step: a botany textbook. I've got to find out about some of this stuff. 🙂 @ Allan.That sounds appropriate I think. And thank you for considering it so.
ed,i enjoyed your cosmic prayer. very cool. to contemplate the scale of things. xylem to the stars… to the precious hand. :happy:
I will consider that a prayer. Or a conversation between you, us and the force.
Originally posted by edwardpiercy:
keep it interesting Eddie!Keep it up and we will be coming back! !The phrase "Keep it up" it is 😮 added in the most innocent and honest way!
Thank you!I am blessed and lucky in terms of everything — including you here on Opera. :heart:
Just mailed you a photo of Sasha taken a few minutes ago. We're back in the Cave keeping cool. This guy I know just brought us down a bottle of '99 Merlot from Caterina. Has a bit of an overbite to it, but is still very good. Merlot is so finiky!Have a great evening and kisses from the sleepy little girl.
:oand we are all blessed having you here Eddie :heart:
Originally posted by edwardpiercy:
awwwwwwwwwwwwww thank you Eddie! enjoy your wine!I am so tired tonight,it feels like if I close my eyes I might never open them again… my working day was over an hour ago and I still not feeling like eating…*walks in the shower….* G/nite Eddie and "precious wet kisser"
Ed, as long as the position of your hands and fingers are the same as the rest of your body, this is ok :left:Don`t let them be separated from you :insane::P
I will try my best not to do that! 😆
I like the idea of ears Eddie!and your tongue! 😆 well you know the thinking here no…….. :heart:
This is interesting Ed but makes one feel quite small. I think we should all have a 'post your hand week' just for the heck of it. Then another week of feet. We should probably keep it at that though……….. as far as appendages go. Ears might be interesting too. Ears are sort of lyrical.
the curling up will hit the right "spot" 😆
@ Pam.Well I would be up for it if everybody else would. I guess I'll have to do my feet this time, or….@ Angeliki….my tongue? But it doesn't curl under like that dog's did. I'm afraid people would be dissapointed. 🙂
Like a butterfly! :p
:lol:Amazon butterflies … which reminds me to remove from the shelve the book on " The Amazons and Their Wild Nights! ":hat:oi!the things I will have to post on October! 😆
meli :heart: shame on you :lol:of course she'll never see this comment because she is gone… 😥
Scott, there won't be Angeliki to lead us into temptation anymore. We can go back to being perfect angels. :p
Things like that often make me wonder about this 'intelligent design' theory. Intelligent? Not really, if you ask me. Example: is it particularly intelligent when sugar and salt looks alike? I don't know how many cups of coffee or smoothies I have spoiled on that account. On the other hand, perhaps this detail proves that the design is intelligent. Whoever made the World must have recognized the difference between salt and sugar, because otherwise we would not have salt water in the oceans. If you know what I'm saying…Anyways, I think it makes perfect sense to look for intelligent life in outer space. There's not much of it about around here, so if there is intelligent life at all, it must be out there somewhere.
I don't know if it makes any difference if the life is "intelligent" or not. If there were a fire I would probably save a human from a building over a potted fern. But other than that I think I'm getting away from the whole judgemental thing. It's all creation. Buddhist monks will carry a broom to sweep any insects out of the way of their feet. But they also eat rice, which is a plant, which involves ending the life of the plant. I myself eat rice, hamburger on occasion or pork. And last year I purposely killed two very annoying flies that were flying around the apartment. Some of this — eating — is pretty much unavoidable. And so we are all murderers in our own way.
Thanks for your additions, Scott. Well the problem isn't eating, of course. Like I said, that's unavoidable. And it is also the way things happen in the lower realms. What I was talking about is having what Albert Schweitzer called "reverance for life." Life is Life, no matter what the organism. And I think that to support the other side is Non-life. It's just a matter of which side of the scale we want to be on. Okay, enough preaching. I think I'll go and do something humanly stupid like smoke a cigarette and forget about the pulpit. 🙂
i think the supreme intelligence had a choice in the beginning, if there even was a beginning, everything could live forever and nothing would have to eat; "it" decided that it would be more interesting to create levels or realms… maybe you die; then surprise :up: you are conscious in another realm. but i don't count on it. :cool:@aqualion. if the creator was really smart he would have filled the ocean with sugar instead. who needs salt? :lol:"no salt, no sugar" russian proverb. :happy:
😆 like they say, "ya gotta give the devil his due." :happy:
I just smoked a cigarette (and had a cup of coffe as well), but I still can't figure that meaning of life stuff out… It's really annoying. Here I am, a grown man, father and husband, living in a modern city, wearing shirt and trousers, I even went to school, and still I can't figure out the basic things like where did we come from and what's in it for me. It wears me down. It's depressing. Perhaps I should read one of those books. I saw on TV that reading might improve your knowledge or something. I don't know…
@ Scott:lol:I think that tomorrow I will be up to some very devilish Bloody Marys. Hopefully. @ MartinVery well expressed. And, at some risk, I can also add that it seems very Danish somehow. :up: :up: :up: