Over the last few days I have been working on Juliet’s ‘My Story’, which is now more or less in good ‘Word shape’ as a document. This means headings, styling, table of content and file path reference. Juliet and I did the spelling and grammar last week in the old document.

This afternoon we will enter into this styled document the mistakes and changes Juliet has found since last week, which will give us a draft version. This will still have to be further completed with about two more chapters in the next few weeks.

No major items to report from yesterday, except that I sent Els the technical email on my computer specifications to inform her consultant. I also asked Jan for stocking sizes of his granddaughter, but that will have to wait for that feminine know-how.

I bought some cards and a street paper from Annie Wolf Leg, who was on her station on Fourth at the Kricket. She had cards of a modern Native design, which I want to take to my family as an example of contemporary Indigenous art.

This aft I’ll meet up with John and with Juliet later. At the Kricket yesterday I also bought my first two presents to take along, to wit, omnisax as strong as a suitcase, as light as a lipstick, which does not have much male appeal. Now it is onto maple syrup, calendars and wristbands for presents.

Upon reading over yesterday’s Writings I spotted a few corrections, but also came up with the idea that concept development finds an analogy in stone tool development. The latter is well known, much studied and documented, reaching from fist axes to microliths.

This development enabled humans to describe and order their experience in a reference framework that could be passed on to the next generation.

Even though humans developed their own concepts with time, as I illustrated yesterday, we tend to think of them as a given. Yet, we know very well that languages developed over time in many different ways. This development enabled humans to describe and order their experience in a reference framework that could be passed on to the next generation. This is analogous to the passing on of tool making skills.

These passed on traditions of concept frameworks, tool making techniques, accumulated rules and customs [long phone call with Thomas.] have come to us in the form the cultures and traditions of humankind. A rich diversity of frameworks, each ordering and structuring the experience of its people and communities.

These are now all meeting up in our globalising world and presenting us with the new challenge of shaping an overall framework within which humanity’s diverse traditions can be accommodated.
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