I was supposed to follow that norm and find a specific through line. I don't think I met this challenge specifically. However this medium has allowed me a space to generate thoughts, a place to play with words, a space to invite others into a conversation.
Though a conversation is certainly lacking, feel free to comment.
I want to talk about challenges and where we come from and what we are doing and what we hope to do with our futures as a people and as individuals.
Though this blog has no through line, I believe I am writing about something specific, human achievement.
It may be from the scope of one man, be it my achievement or those achievements of bigger men. I want to write about the how, why and the what.
I want to explain where I came from and where I hope to go.
Speaking of achievements this morning I went for a run.
I ran most of 3.72 miles I walked a bit and stretched my calves, but am proud to say this is my best run yet since getting back into it from my tendon injury.
During my run I was thinking about the political process I thought how through all the arguments we are still connected. I thought about Paternity. If we each follow the progression of our immediate families backward to just the middle ages we will find we have over 1 billion ancestors. A certain percentage of that number are duplicates, so the real number is like 3 million ancestor have lived from the middle ages till now for any given person on the planet. I don’t even know how to calculate how many generations that would have to include in this number.
3 million ancestors.
That number is simply astounding.
And there was this one guy sitting alone in the desert one hundred thousand years ago who started it all. All human beings can trace their DNA back to him. If a time machine were to be and he was meet everyone on earth would need to call him Grandpa.
Now that’s an achievement and a through line to be proud of.
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