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 Thoughts destined to be washed away by the tides of life. |
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I've been studying my cover photo for a while now, and it seems to me that it is more than just a photo of what is there that can be seen, more than just three white rocks stacked on a beach. It contains an important question about the future, about what happens long after the photographer has gone. What will happen to our pile of stones when the tide comes in? Will it topple or has the architect built this structure at a safe distance? I don't know what will happen to these words that I stack here on the sand. They may prove safely distant, or they may be swallowed up by a rush of self-doubt. They may be here for a season. They may lose their balance and be scattered by the shoreline, or be hidden away under shifting sands. Perhaps someday, the tides of life will reclaim them. Or maybe that's just a bunch of poetic, romantic nonsense. After all, this is just a blog. |
| I was trying to unscrew the lid on the jar that I keep tea in and it was impossible to move. How could that be? I was the one who put the lid on in the first place. And I have noticed this problem before. How is it that I can tighten things so much that I can’t re-open them? So, I wondered about that, and why I obviously can apply greater torque in tightening the lid than I can in unscrewing it. So, I went looking for information. Seems the screw was first invented by a friend of Plato, Archytas of Tarentum, and put to good use by Archimedes. No one knows who decided that screws should tighten in a clockwise direction, but it seems that it obviously emerged as the standard because most people are right-handed and they can apply more strength going in a right-handed direction, or clockwise. Now, the problem is that I can’t decide if I should screw lids on less tightly just so I can open them more easily. The whole idea of a tight lid is to keep nasties out and food freshness in. Who wants a flat bottle of Coke? But one of life’s little mysteries suddenly made sense to me. It won’t help me open a jar or anything, but it might make me feel less weak and helpless. It's all my own fault if I can't open the jar. |
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