i have a basin of tadpoles on my porch here in cool June Port Moody BC
and I have been watching them transform, slowly, from amphibious to
quasi-oxygyn air breathers, from lettucs to bug eaters, my taddies,
have not yet grown legs, acccording to 'the literature" we should have
budding armies and legs, shorter tails, definite frog-let features. Are my
taddies learning disabled, she wodners. I am wondering if i should be
squatting by the bucket with flashcards, mozart, ginko, PhosphatidylSerine
etc. to speed up their cognitive processes - fast track their genetic
development.
I have not yet been able to approx imate the zpd of tdp's - but I have
sense - in the cool green shadows of this wet cool spring, that they are
teaching me something about process, and meta-morphosis and writing.
tadpoles and their immanent transformations - ready or not, or when ever
they are ready.....
Rilke says "yes - the springtimes needed you.
often a star
was waiting for you to notice it.
A wave rolled toward you
out of the distant past, or as you
walked
under an open window, a violin
yielded itself to your hearing. All this
was mission.
so my taddies are swishing wahle like in their basin, slurrping up
spirolina, and lettuce, and playing tadpole tag. I think I might have a
new trope for my disseration here.
kathryn
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>
> June 10 =F3 Imagine taking a
>drug that offers the promise of allowing you to live to be 180 =F3 without
>suffering such crippling disabilities as arthritis or fatigue. That may
>no longer be the stuff of science fiction, thanks to new studies in
>genetics. While the work has so far only be done in worms, there is
>every reason to think it may be applicable to humans.
>
> Of course, by the time they've tested this on humans to see whether it
>works, we'll all be dead anyhow. Bruce
"science does not vanquish mystery" Annie Dillard "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"
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