Shoulda What?

Thought for the day: Ask for questions and see if any answers appear. If not, then move on to the next character to develop in this story because the current character is uninteresting, tending toward questions that are not worth answering, asking about websites such as freedomfchs.com found while searching pictures at peopleofwalmart.com when one has more important stories to tell about our species than what we choose to imagine about those around us on this planet.

Let the next character go into space cruise ship development or funny storylines about Earth being an experimental zoo for other planetary inhabitants; in other words, humour, not humourlessness.

My friends invent new space exploration devices every day - let me use their creativity and happy outlook to drive my stories, not use stories about those prone to stay on this planet or perpetuate ideas about why they're in life situations they think are out of their control. There's too much out there to get excited about than to spend time coming up with subplots about what's here.

And such great inventions, too! My friend's new invention, for instance, a curiosity that's more than a curio cabinet, more than a music box, maybe larger than a bread box and definitely quieter than a church mouse. My friend says my Book of the Future, crystal ball and bag of other goodies are cryptic anachronisms. Time to put old toys away and move into the future. I'd already gotten rid of the basement computer in favor of the pocket calculator connected to my computer programmers' world-size superabacus. Guess even it isn't worth the cost of a subway token. My organic circuitry is old-fashioned, too, my friend claims.

Can't wait to show you more. I think it'll make for good storyline material during this story you and I find ourselves in the writing and reading of the blog, a tribute to many, include those Escher fans who want 3D to take us beyond cool "gotcha" graphics and into a Picasso-like behind-the-scenes cubist world.

We can make the world a better place when we focus on positive, life-affirming lifestyles, technologies, business practices, artistic insights, and other ways to see that this world will be here for all of us and our kin long after we're gone. See the big picture and all the small stuff becomes really, really small.

I hold every one of you in high esteem, knowing no one life is more important than any other because we contribute to the whole in ways unimaginable, beyond my comprehension even when I know what you're doing when you aren't sure. No matter whether you're putting the grease in the gearbox that runs the machine that sews the garments together that makes the clothes that get shipped to another place on the other side of the world for people to buy reasonably-priced merchandise, or you're the person on a limited budget, balancing alimony payments, food stamps and a minimum-wage job to feed yourself and your children, you're the most important person in the world. Remember that humour is what keeps us all together. We all face tragedy, chaos and disorder sometime in our lives, some more than others. The point is to keep your head up, see the far horizon and know how the world is only here in all its wonder because of you, no matter who you are or what you're doing.