Thursday, July 28, 2011
cleanerupper
Monday, July 18, 2011
Reading Whitman's "OUT OF THE CRADLE, ENDLESSLY ROCKING"......
When the snows had melted—
when the lilac-scent was in the air,
and the Fifth-month grass was growing,
Up this sea-shore, in some briers,
Two guests from Alabama—two together,
And their nest, and four light-green eggs, spotted with brown,
And every day the he-bird, to and fro, near at hand,
And every day the she-bird, crouch’d on her nest, silent, with bright eyes,
And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never disturbing them,
Cautiously peering, absorbing, translating.
when the lilac-scent was in the air,
and the Fifth-month grass was growing,
Up this sea-shore, in some briers,
Two guests from Alabama—two together,
And their nest, and four light-green eggs, spotted with brown,
And every day the he-bird, to and fro, near at hand,
And every day the she-bird, crouch’d on her nest, silent, with bright eyes,
And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never disturbing them,
Cautiously peering, absorbing, translating.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
WHAT IF.....
Journey to Other Worlds by Satori
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
TISSUE OF LIES
Viskningar och rop
A fine line of malice stretches across your face,
pulling the flesh taut against your cheeks.
In my madness, I see what is not for me to
see.....
It vanishes if I wink, giving it time to
hide.......
Or is it my imagination?
My gates are open to the jackal and the virgin.
Both enter laughing,
In my blindness, they are the same.
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Lamarckian inheritance
Mendel's 1st Law.......The two members of a gene pair segregate from each other during meiosis; each gamete has an equal probability of obtaining either member of the gene pair......evolved into modern laws of genetics, wherein it is universally accepted that the genes from progenitors determine the fixed genetics of their offspring. However, it is now accepted that mutation of these genes occurs as the organism adapts to circumstances that may have not been present earlier in the history of the genome of a species.....Lamarck implied, without the utilization of modern evolutionary or genetic science, that circumstance may alter the process of "fixing" the organism, thereby allowing for changes predicated by the chemical processes that have occurred during early development and possibly even by modifications made subsequent to the youth of the organism. My favorite example is the giraffe......giraffes that stretch for the high-growing berries are more likely to locate food that shorter-necked giraffes cannot reach, thereby modifying the gene that determines neck length, insuring that their offspring will be more suited for survival. In humans, which are capable of conscious alteration of behavior, both the intellectual, emotional and even "psychic" aspects of being may be genetically modified by the consciously altered constructs which determine personality as well as the sheer physical adaptations that they make to accommodate change. Thought is as transformative as physical adaptation to our needs.
