Random thoughts on April 18

Vegetable plants are eye opening. This morning I inspected my snap-pea plants, and found that, without any help from me, they were climbing their trellis. How can these small green things, without brain or nervous system, know when to curl their delicate tendrils? How could people believe they have evolved, gained this exceptional ability by chance?

After returning into the house, I mused on our family's proclivity to obsessions. Whatever book we read, whatever album we listen to, whatever movie we watch, unwittingly, we become obsessed with it. We quote, we parody, we add to, we identify with them, almost ad nauseum. They become integral parts of our lives. I decided that it must be genetic when I heard Emma Darcy, who it really too young to have learnt it any other way, call her doll "baby Moses" after watching The Ten Commandments yesterday.

Being a mostly auditory family, there is almost always music playing in the livingroom. As Purring Piggy pointed out to me a couple days ago, we almost always listen to mixes, all our favorite songs in some sort of random order. To Purring Piggy and Clankeeper, this is annoying. They like listening to full albums, and knowing what song comes next. We like surprises, and a mixture of genres. Is this a generational gap?

Today, after being chastised for not completing a chore, Martin the Warrior gave this as an excuse: "I was confused by the music." (We think he meant "distracted.)

My new favorite saying is: "That comment does not deserve any rational objection." (to be used when confronted with irrationality) I think it is from a classic book, but cannot remember which one.