24 01 16 1 a E for Effort, P and D
24 01 16
E for Effort, P and D
Before the last ice ages, finishing about 12,000 years ago, humans hadn’t invented much building.
Some sort of shelter; sure. Pulled down branches, ferns and lean-tos to shelter a bit from the rains. Caves were good.
But how many caves do you know of? Not many. Or any. We all had to keep moving to get food. That was who we were. Wherever we were. Then, from about 8000 years back, in some few places across our beautiful globe, people started harnessing animals and cultivate food – where there were such foods as could be ‘harnessed’.
So then some of us didn’t have to keep moving for food. That, in different places – India, China, northern places above England. Africa. A fairly long list. Central Italy; all became great deflection points of our globes’ story.
A big new title theme for our existence – settling down. And so here we are. Kinda globalising, these past 400 years, now in the middle of this once-only BIOHUMAN EXPLOSION. Every way forward through and after 2024 is going to be different. Or the same. In some ways.
My theme songs are self-help. No-one should care about you and your wellbeing more than you. SO if you care enough to make a future better for yourself, you have to DO STUFF. Make effort. And you need to persevere. P for Perseverance. And, last night, I realised we each need a steely discipline as well. I want to write. I need the discipline to write, to share, perchance to dream of the new god – making a difference. Not like David Attenborough, David Suzuki, Gretta Thunberg. Like Gravelhead.
Australian, knock-about; gravel lover and most thoughtful. Mixed social and solitude. Lucky in oh so many ways. But to make our plausible, and now futuresrealistic dreams come true, we need to develop our value systems – what matters to us, the principles that make that into sensible action, and the Effort, Perseverance and Discipline to make it happen.
And make up a few new words.
Yesterday I had a visit from a dear friend of long shared experience, and her friend. They were Christian, evangelical. We spoke of the present. Trump. Truth. Direction. So much convergence between my breed of science – reproducible, testable; tests ongoing and developing of what we think changing reality is based on (energy matter and time dancing with each other – whatever any of that trilogy really is - perceived and testable reality) and their breed of faith-based, God - as a distinct entity reality.
I say, since adolescence – God is the universe, the universe is God. They see God likely to intervene. I kinda agree, but with us as part of God. God’s agency is our agency. We need to make effort in this post Trump Era (surely, they WILL post him. To jail). His legacy may be real. Not as a symbol of capitalism, power and democracy all eaten and poorly expelled as excrement most foul, but as a symbol of the path we ALMOST headed down. Did he understand respect for others, compassion, empathy (I think a viable global future is ALL about those things). It doesn’t seem Trumps’ value system was much more than very clever SELF. Arrogance and bullying seemed to have been his thing. More contempt than compassion.
So that is today.
Song 6
We all come from somewhere
Bm7 Notes BbABbAFD.
1. We all come from somewhere///
From Africa/ we spread out/ to the east/ north and south/
From somewhere.
2. We moved in groups// took different routes//
Along the seas, through desert sands. From near and far/ through distant lands/ We all come from somewhere (BbABbABbF)
Chorus (with drive)
(Bb)We’re so good/ We’re so bad/
We’re so clever/ we’re so mad from somewhere/ From somewhere
3. (G#) Found so much food// water land/
(Dance beat) Ha-ppy spots we danced and sang/
Dance can take us somewhere//
Dance. Dance it takes us somewhere// (dance beat break)
….(mini lead).
Chorus
4. Ice went back, started settling down/
Cave to hut/ homestead to town////
Now we know we’re somewhere/// Now we know we’re somewhere. (mini lead) ..
5. (with passion) We fight for space/ you want my place!!
So many weapons, terrorists face // // BUT WAIT!!
6. (more relaxed; beat emphasis)We’ve got our stance // we like to dance//// Dance can take us somewhere …..(dance beat break - talking) Insects dance, all animals dance. All cultures
Dance can take us somewhere …..Brolgas dance ..
7. (with chorus beat) It’s the 2020s; wars there’s plenty////
We’ve had our Trump and now we’re stumped//
on on our way…
To somewhere ….X 2
Chorus….. (then fade:) we all come from somewhere
A song on the today theme.
Now this web site is starting in, I’ll make the effort, persevere, use discipline, to insert a recorded copy of the song, performed. Multimedia. Oh yair!
Ding Gravelhead 16 Jan 2024
Australian bush