Alleles

 I used about five different things this morning to make life more interesting because Sunday is a rest day. So I am on the couch with a fluffy cover and I am quietly internally sobbing and reading Wikipedia. I started looking up dates.

In the movie Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark, there is a scene where the monkey eats a date and Indy does not. That was kind of what I was going for. I chose as my date, uhahaha, December 14th. It was the day George Washington died but also the day that John of the Cross died. So I was looking around at that day because that was also the day that I had read something important personally, or which of which it was written, in one of my inspirationals. 

And one thing led to another and before too long I was reading about alleles. They are descriptive notes on DNA. I found them by reading about a man named Charles Howard. You see Charles Howard was the name of one of Charles Darwin's family members, I remembered, and in the lists of the dead that day were a lot of historians so I took a detour looking at history. On purpose. The Charles listed was not the one with an association to Darwin. My family name is also Charles Howard, no relation.

Anyway, upon searching for the Charles Howard who was associated with the Charles named Darwin I came across the Wedgewood family, and seeing Erasmus, looked at him first knowing he was a link between them. Erasmus Darwin was a relation of the Wedgewoods, a famous family for their China. Tea cups, as it were.

Then Erasmus had a most unbelievable biography in the midst of all this, wives dying of alcohol induced liver failure at 30, mistresses, marrying another man's wife. He died first. Hmmm....

So I thought, must be one of those things where he stole the idea of evolution. Of course now writing this I am remembering another family member with a very deep faith who had been about a first ancestral, for lack of better word, atom. This was a pet theme of mine own. (One says,"No! There is randomness, randomness everywhere" I say, "the father of genetics learned everything from some peas!")

So then I went looking at the source of Erasmus Darwin's theory, who he stole it from and the name came right up on Google. A man by the name of Monboddo, which would roll off the tongue as Mondobbo. He was a Scottish judge and deist philosopher.

The article on Monboddo became an article on evolution which became an article on genetic drift which became Law on large numbers. All this time thinking thinking of what the heck an allele is doing while it's changing.  It is called random. 

I ended up throwing a lot in the pot. It was a sort of stew with all the mix, a days worth of jumping around. I was very intrigued by  Bernoulli's principle, which sort of had me making expository statements about what can be guessed at based on limited knowledge. A favorite topic as of late.

And so my stew was these things: alleles, spooky particles, and a very cute clock called planetary clock which I had found thinking about weighted clocks and use for planets. 

All this and what I was getting at was what's the point and isn't it obvy?

Borrrinngggg.

Sunday writing

2-1-26

P.s. this morning I was in my mother's bed because by chance she had to watch a 3 am tennis match. I turned to the Bible of my great aunt and opened it on whim, landed right on the Prayer of Jabez. Couldn't have been any crazier. I am reading a daily prayer as a novena tucked in my "Purpose Driven Life" book. Do we believe it means anything at all?

P.s.s. I looked up May 19 and you should know not to make plans on that day. It's been used foully. 

Josiah Wedgwood - Wikipedia https://share.google/zwGNCqEGi3U3R2lVX

Erasmus Darwin - Wikipedia https://share.google/2HunGUCF8ZJMOBnak