Let's talk about this picture ... Picture!

 

To begin, I wonder what that title reads like. It may appear differently within the mind of different people. I could snob it up a bit and talk about Galileo, because he says that animals are like men in that there is an intellectual gap between them and man. First line of his "Dialogue". And that there is the same intellectual gap between men and other men. I could then overwhelm my audience by suggesting that the title reads a certain way and that it has meaning because of it. Because reading style is a part of practice. To some it is read as a sort of slide show announcement. "Slide one!" To others a sort of insignificant exclamation. Reading ability matters to persons such as Miss Mary, but we each have our own way of looking at things. So to be polite, let us say that each mind has its abilities, so that while I am bad at math, so I am good at law. *

I will just say though that the law is "practiced" for a purpose, and that I am surprised I know nothing of this philosophy, although it may be a new science. What one is best capable of is an object of the mind, which in old times may not have been explored, so now we know that we can pull from our right and left brains, but before we knew only that men could achieve greatness, and that the subject of their work had consequences that varied, so a craftsman is able to become a master and men had mastered intellectual subjects as well. Things which required no tools. 

The picture is really awesome. There was a moment the other night I just sat and looked at that child's tapestry and loved it! Oh how cool, right?! The center has an evil eye, and around the outside is a sort of amphibious but grasshopper-like creature topped with eggs, or if it were a plant, seeds. But best, the outside with its constellations. So lovely. They have always been something to me, you know. The belt of Orion. I called them my three stars, which was immature, and terribly narcissistic. But later, I had come to realize that there were constellations, and used to stare at space trying to crack the code of the stars. I wondered and wondered and now I see! This is a code, it's genetic code. 

How neat that I see the loveliness in simple things because I am educated. 

* Kind of an Emily Dickensonian piece of intellectual jargon. It's Nietzsche.