Not so busy

I seem to have been really busy lateley so no chance to sit and rant in peace. It is very therapeutic to write dowm what is bugging me. It must be great to be one of those newspaper columnists or radio jocks wh are allowed to expand on every prejudice they have, and they get paid for it.

Everytime I read a newspaper or listen to some "expert" they say something ill-informed or ignorant it makes me feel irritated or angry. However my youngest daughter has just given birth to a baby daughter and just looking at this little baby human makes me think that there are wonderful things. The toes and fingers always amazing, so perfectly formed and so small, it is like one bit that is complete at birth, as they grow older other things change but the fingers and toes are the same.

If there is optimiusm it is in science and our understanding of the things around us. Children have a natural fascination for wonder which vansihed for many as they grow older. Is that because the reasons are not obvious and so make us think. I recall talking to an economist and saying that it is interesting to understand what makes thunder and lightning, his response was that if it didn't help him avoid getting wet what was the point. That is a very sad response, reducing everything to a utilitarian view and having no joy in life. One presumes there were things that gave him pleasure but not understanding why things happen clearly wasn't one of them.

Perhaps more thoughts later today!