Virtual Existence Time Machine

Blog City Prompt: Do you believe humans and animals have a spiritual connection that isn’t necessarily dependent on the language? Have you had any incidents of this with the animals in your life? Oh yes. I had Winniefred for over fourteen years. She came as a birthday gift, just a tiny fluf. She grew into a beautiful multicolored Australian crossed with a Dingo, essentially bred for Sheep herding. Her earliest training was by a male Siamese who taught her to play and to respect cats. I was working as Artistic Director, and Choreographer for a regional semi-professional theater in Carmel Valley, CA. I taught a dance class every day for the theater company. From her earliest time with me, Winnierfred stayed where ever I was working. She had a towel under the ballet bar and learned very quickly that "Stay" meant no moving or making noise. When the break came, she circulated among the actors and dancers greeting and being loved. Then when we started touri...

Blog City Prompt: You have just received a special Award. What is the Award for? Write your acceptance speech. Hello, thank you for coming today! Here’s the story: Did you notice that it is very difficult to summarize RANDOM INFORMATION? The more random ideas and events are, they have greater dimensionality and the more problem we have organizing it in our brains. So we like (need) to summarize it all, and give it a file name. I think this is a natural human inclination. You see, more summaries equal more order and less randomness.. .Soooo...this condition that makes us simplify allows, if not forces, us to believe and think THAT THE WORLD IS LESS RANDOM THAN IT REALLY IS . (Think about that!) My award is for finally understanding that we live in a much more random world than I thought. I am adjusting. And I would like to thank Sir Doktor Professor Karl Raimund Popper for saying, “Understanding how to act under conditions of incomplete information is the highest...

Madeleine L'Engle said, "Slowly, slowly I am learning to listen to the book, in the same way I try to listen in prayer. If the book tells me to do something completely unexpected, I heed it; the book is usually right." What do you think she meant? “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” Madeleine L'Engle She seemed to believe in the innocence and imaginary powers of children. I think Madeleine wanted to retain that accepting ability that most of us lose as we age. It's the difference between people who read Science Fiction and Fantasy with those who only read mystrey, murder, and war stories. The Sci-fi folks accept lots of new ideas and concepts. The others are deep into hard reality. I believe we get enough of hard reality all around us in real life. I see too much promoted on television and in lots of new fiction. Why is that? Lis...