Every so often, we have to take on change. Change is one of those things that we cannot really avoid. Even when we decide not to embrace it; it comes up on us when we’re not looking and prompts us with a possible outcome. I was watching this show last night on NGEO and it was discussing the relative age of early hominid adaptation in Africa being from 4 to 6 million years ago. One of the determining characteristics was bipedalism. Get this. These guys found only about 20 percent of the skeleton and were able to do amazing science thanks to modern medical scanning technology. Peering inside bone mass, looking at methods of muscular wear, looking at the mass of bone and how its formed. Johanson was just an amazing guy and told this story of finding Lucy as he was walking to a river to take a swim. Its like the most serendipitious of discoveries made at the most unlikely of moments.
Anyways, I started thinking about how our perceptions of life have changed since we learned how ancient mankind truly is, what came before it, and what will possible come after. We are truly a smallish dot when you consider geologic time. But we are a dot of meaning I believe. Maybe in the millenia to come we won’t be thought of with much fanfare because others will come that will fix global warming, environmental pollution, political misconsideration. But still we have produced amazing things in our little lives.
At some point, we all face the same riveting changes and directional adjustments. I have a few friends that have been there. I believe we men are really not as well adjusted to change as women. Women seem to get it. They understand much more of the human condition then we faulty males with our fragile egos. But that’s okay. As the Byrds said, “for everything there is a season”. Or something like that.
Don’t worry. Music is a universal and since it is it talks about the other universals. Ones like change.
