Reptile Brain

I'm convinced that without awareness and applied effort to counter
it, the typical human consciousness devolves throughout life AWAY
from empathy and compassion and toward dogged self-centered survival
instinct. Nearly everything that makes life valuable gets lost in
that process, pruned away as inessential. You might cite the same
thing in sex, where at first one is overwhelmed by the presence of
the other and knows love, only to abstract from the experience some
habit of using the other toward the end of recapturing bliss. It
bears repeating. A human being is an end in his or herself. "A
person's a person no matter how small..." - Dr. Seuss

Sevi & Hart

Sevi running to school this morning accidentally kicks her butt with her upflying foot. Immediately tickled to death by this and keeps repeating it intentionally.

the doomsayers

doc that thoroughly explorers the assumed ulterior motives and
pathologies of those concerned with doomsaying issues, environmental
and otherwise. The point would be to compare these with the motives
of those who would ignore any warnings of threats to human health and
environment and see how they stack up.

film called "Wherewithal"

Most important lesson to impart

and to live:
A person is an end in his or herself.
If that were the only wisdom I could pass on, it would be enough.

Doc about guys employed to make sure things break

the obsolescence engineers that must exist

the word "bedevil"

always makes me think "boll weevil"