My mental circus, inside and out.

There's something about contentedness that does not breed blog posts.  As Bodhidharma said, your true nature is wherever language doesn't go. But we live in a talkative time.

Emma heard a very interesting show on NPR on Sunday, on the sleepy drive back from her sister's big Easter Sunday farm dinner. That was like going back to the 40s or the 50s, with her sister's child in a cowboy hat and holster romping around shooting everyone, even if they put their hands up.  "That's the influence of George Bush," Emma said. "He likes John Wayne movies," her big beefy brother-in-law replied.   Maks was into it, even though around Emma's house  aaaaaaaaaaaaar pirates  is the game of choice.   Emma was too tired, way too tired, from the all night partying at the barrister's ball, for which, for the first time in her life, she got a manicure.  She still feels faintly embarrassed about her pink nails, the kind of pink that matches mucuos membranes, as if her fingers were now too revealing.  Horsh loved that, he kissed her fingers one by one as he stood there in a tuxedo with a silver tie.  Before getting to all the other pinks in the way that Horsh does so well  and so energetically for a 54-year-old Republican, or for anyone for that matter.    Let's just say that it's worth painting your nails for, even if you can't really have a serious conversation about Obama's race speech.

But Emma digresses (as good sex will make you do).  So this show, Radio Lab, on NPR was about DNA .  One segment was about a woman who is a "chimera."  In her mother's womb, she absorbed the body of her twin, so that when she, in turn, had children, they were not from her DNA.  Another segment was on the evolution of single-celled organisms, how they leaked helpful DNA and how this DNA was absorbed by other organisms.  For example, one cell could have had DNA that helped it withstand cold temperatures and then this was leaked into and replicated by another organism.  So the point was that this was not survival of the fittest, but rather community.

Posted by: EmmaPele at March 26, 2008 18:15 | link | comments (4)

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#1  26 March 2008 - 19:16

 

I like your happy blog post. It feels like the sun rising this morning.

InMyLife

#2  26 March 2008 - 19:17

 

...by that I meant to say, a warm, slow smile that grew as I read.

InMyLife

#3  26 March 2008 - 21:06

 

great post. maybe some of your dna will leak out to the horsh character!! great juxtaposition. interdependence.

and yeah. nail polish is just plain weird. looks nice at times though. feels more "finished" or polished or something. but i don't like having long nails because i have to be able to feel/touch everything with the tips of my fingers.

limine

#4  26 March 2008 - 23:11

 

I, too, heard at least part of that NPR show - and coincidentally, had watched an episode of CSI the night before that dealt with the same subject - a chimera. Interesting concept.

mafidl

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