You can learn a great deal, on any given day, by listening and looking.   Here are a few things I considered today, in my flight of observations.

This morning, I overheard someone say, “I will have to look that up on my ‘Laptop Computer’ ”….

If you refer to your laptop… I suppose it doesn’t necessarily mean computer.  If you say… I’ll have to look that up on my laptop…..  I guess you could mean many other things.

Perhaps you would just be staring at the top your thighs, trying to find the answer to…. “When is Meryl Streep’s birthday?” or “MLB Standings” and such.

I tried it.  While I noticed that my moles have not changed, and that I missed a couple of spots on my knees when I shaved this morning, I did not find any other answers.

Conceivably…. there is a lesson there.

What if the “Answers” to life’s question are always there for us?  We just have to choose the right places to look.

So I found out Meryl was born on June 22, 1949… and that the Kansas City Royals are 12 games up in the American League Central.  They are one of my favorite teams, by the way.

But, the point is… the answers could not be found in the vein patterns on my legs.

Let’s think about something else.  Since we are thinking, let’s think on the brain.  Did you ever stop to consider that the brain named itself?  It’s true.  And everything else, for that matter.     The first brain really wanted to be named Brian… but wrote it down wrong.  The lesson?  We all make mistakes.  Sometimes, we simply have to live with them, or make the best of it.

And… how about this profound thought:   Do geese see God?
(You can read that phrase… all the way backward and forward….  Now… THAT has GOT to mean something.)   I am not sure what the lesson is… maybe that there are two ways of looking at everything, but in the end…. we might all be very much the same.

Finally.  You, me and everyone else we know is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms.  So… in that way… we are very much alike.  But with 7 octillion atoms in us… we are also…most certainly… very different.

And those are a few of the things I thought about today.  How about you?

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein