Yesterday I wrote in my green Hilroy thin note book for my spring talk, starting with page 5 at 7:40am and finishing with page 13 at 00:16am early this Friday morning. This totals at about 180 words * 9 pages ~ 1 600 words of inspired words that now need to be forged into a narrative.
In other words, we are not just referring back a few millennia to the invention of writing, agriculture and husbandry, but to the time when our species started to spread across the planet circa 60k years ago.
Its purpose is to show humanity’s development from 60ky ago to the present, relating our earthly population of today to our common beginnings in that early past. In other words, we are not just referring back a few millennia to the invention of writing, agriculture and husbandry, but to the time when our species started to spread across the planet circa 60k years ago.
Also yesterday I met with John for coffee and we recounted the years that I was in Holland (1999-2003) and how different our lives would be now, if I had stayed there. Though I did enjoy and value still my stay over those years, I was in a between state, recalling and integrating memories, but not breaking new ground.
That I did do on my return here to Calgary in the summer of 2003, renewing connection with John and Metta at first and later with John’s wife Tammy and family, as well as new friends here in Calgary. Now I am fully engaged with my website and the talks I do for the Calgary Life Enrichment Centre. My latest talk was #46! I am aiming for 52, which would make a set of weekly talks for a year. That marker a I hope to reach in August 2019, Deo Volente or In sha‘a Llah.
However, I admonish myself by saying this is only the first of Peterson’s twelve rules, so bide your time and bite your tongue, I tell myself!
Last night I finished reading chapter one of Jordan Peterson’s “Twelve Rules for Life” which I picked up last Wednesday when on my way to Knox United. I read Peterson’s “Maps of Meaning” back in 2007 and was quite impressed and also pleased to come across this kind of scholarship. This author is now involved in a confrontation with the ‘Pronoun Posse’ of my alma mater UofT in Toronto.
In chapter one of his new book ‘Stand up straight with your shoulders back’ Peterson advocates to take lessons from the lobster who’s ancestry hails from 350-million years ago! This in relation how our modern human biology deep down has regulating mechanisms from back then that even influence us today and of course many other living bio-systems.
This morning recalling this object lesson made me muse that old Abram from the Old Testament has now been replaced as Ancestor by a bio-feedback loop based on bio-science research. However, I admonish myself by saying this is only the first of Peterson’s twelve rules, so bide your time and bite your tongue, I tell myself!
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