garden pyjamas

If I sit here long enough a story will appear. 

There is constant brain churn. It keeps track of a vast amount of incoming sensory data and matches it to stories of stimuli and responses from times past. 

Time is interesting. I have often written about it. [I could put links to the more worthy examples. I could do that now or later. Which is it to be? Time will tell.]

The sun room is brilliantly bright which means that I am not in it – the daylight obscures the screen of the lap top. So I am sitting under the low slung ceiling of the gloomy living room of a small windowed, 17^th century, stone cottage. 

The cottage is older than me.  Big time spans are composed of lots of short spans. Thoughts of the cosmic zoom. 

Quantum entities give rise to 103 elements (atoms) and these combine in many ways to form an enormous range of micro and macro molecules. Some of these (biochemicals) join to form cells which combine to form organisms (plants and animals).

The big bang was about 13.8 billion years ago. Planet earth came into being 4.5 billion years ago. Life evolved on the surface of planet earth about 3 billion years ago. 

Humanoid apes evolved only 15 million years ago and the first people were foragers. Then 10000 years ago farming was invented. And then city states and empires. And now computers, the internet, and men on the moon.

In the early 1980s I was  part of the Technology and Industrial Studies Group (TISG) in the South Sudan. The youths gathered thoughts about a man on the moon project for Juba. This was thought to be unrealistic so there was a wooden bicycle project instead.

It was a warm and bright pyjama day today. I tidied the shed and the utility room and then sat for a while. The main mood was gratefulness. I also photographed some flowers (weeds?), and dosed.