The Other Side of the Hill . . .

Took a little drive this morning heeding this sign:

And this caught my eye:

~ping~

     Breaking the silence. 

     Listening to a two part dramatization of Magister Ludi The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse. Another book I have to finish reading.

    I first came across Charles Cameron's Hip Bone Game several years  ago.

Silence

Nothing better to do?

       Whimsically thinking of past fads. In the late 1970's machines calculating biorhythms were a popular distraction.  Circadian rhythm is familiar to us all. I shouldn't have been surprised to find calculators on the web. 

      This one tells me I've lived 21799 days.

     Froggy has a few more bells-and-whistles to play with.

     If you care to join Care2 then you may leave comments.

     The more grounded scientifically minded among us would more likely start at this wiki article about chronobiology

Point Of View

     POV on PBS tonight is a documentary about the unresolved economic injustices between blacks and whites in South Africa remaining since the abolition of apartheid in 1994. The film is called Promised Land. This interests me as I've recently read the Power Of One by Bryce Courteney.

     I recently found this thought expressed by eden ahbez: [Some blacks hate whites; some whites love blacks; some blacks love whites and some whites hate blacks.] It's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of haters and lovers.