Birds and Other Nonsense

Lumen 21-2, 2.0 Highlights of 2020   Posted – July 30, 2021   Irrelevant tid bit – You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might just find you get what you need.             The Rolling Stones     "You Can't Always get What you Want"   (This was written on December 5, 2020, but still seems to fit.)   At the end if each year it is customary to look back and examine the most important events of that year. While 2020 is not over yet, and based on what has happened so far, we certainly could have additional major events, nevertheless, I present, for your consideration, my list of the major events so far in this remarkable year.   1 and 2. – Covid 19/Economic Crises – These two items could be considered separate, but I look at them as cause (Covid 19) and effect (economic crises).   The Covid 19 pandemic has caused and is causing so much obvio...

Welcome to this new blog. This is the beginning of my first blog, so you are likely to see "learning" mistakes.  Hang with me and it will get better. Some of you may have read my Lumens as part of   Pointless and Random Short Essays (PARSE) PARSE was distributed through Facebook and to an e-mail list of friends and relatives.  Now, in an attempt to reach a larger audience, PARSE is gone and "Birds and Other Nonsense" is born.  Lumens 1-11 were distributed through PARSE and will be repeated in Birds and Other Nonsense, so those of you who read PARSE will see slightly modified versions of what you have already read.  Entirely new stuff will begin with Lumen 12.   Lumen 21-1, 4.0 Distinctive Features of Humanity Posted July 26, 2021 Irrelevant tid bit – Elvis is dead, and I’m not feeling too good myself.   What characteristics do all humans share?   What do all human cultures/tribes have in common?   These are not original quest...