Partial Moon Eclipse Today in some parts of the world
Carlin on weather at night
People were talking about the partial eclipse that’s taking place at 9:40 pm Phoenix time, so I was looking through all my photos for a moon picture. Of course it’s cloudy tonight so I can’t give you a real photo. But the above is the same moon from my back yard on an entirely different night.
So I go and look this thing up at Time and Date.com and come to find out it might be happening at 9:40 pm my time, but I won’t be able to see it unless I grow legs that are thousands of feet long. The Penguins in Antarctica and a few folks in South Africa will be able to see it.
So – eclipse or no eclipse, George Carlin’s weather report above is spot on.
So sorry, most people really aren’t thinking all that much about you. Remember the time you were humiliated because you stumbled? Or you wore two different shoes? Or you had a stain on your clothes from that wonderful burrito? Heck, I still remember being 16 and all gangly, walking right into a telephone pole while the boy’s football team rambled by in a bus! We all still remember those moments.
But… most people (you included) will see something weird and say, “Hmmm, she has a stain on her shirt. That’s gonna upset her when she gets home.” And then they forget about it. Why? Because they have too many things on their plate to worry about. You aren’t high on their list. Ok, I’ll concede that sometimes things wind up on the internet. (I’m so glad we didn’t have that when I was a teen!) But most of those disappear quickly because thousands of other people are doing silly things, too.
I was in South Dakota for a reunion and I walked into an art store filled with wonderful Midwestern paintings. The artist in residence is John C. Green, and he has a sly sense of humor. On his wall is the fake deer’s head pictured above. He was entertaining himself and people in the store by having the deer head talk with them. It was corny, but still funny. Two women were looking at a painting. One said, “It’s beautiful, but it depicts a hunting scene. What will people think?” John’s deer head let out a chuckle and told them nobody’s thinking all that much about them. It was a perfect moment of good old Midwestern practicality. It applies to most of us, I would guess.
A lot of us get caught up worrying about what others think. A good question to ask yourself is, “Am I that important to them?” Answer: Probably not.
Just be you. Enjoy Life. Laugh at yourself and move on.
There are many versions of the “turtles” story. Here’s one of them:
Desert Tortoise
Dr. William James, who is known as the Father of American Psychology, used to talk in his logic lectures about the impossibility of swaying someone from their distinct and strongly held Belief Systems. His example was a conversation he had with an old woman. This ancient philosopher had an explanation of how the world was created. She said the Big Bang Theory was wrong, and all those Darwinians and Creationists were just crazy talking.
What was her explanation? She explained how the Earth rested on the back of a ginormous turtle.
“But, dear lady”, Professor James protested, as politely as could be, “what holds up the turtle?”
“Ah”, she said, “that’s easy. The turtle is standing on the back of another turtle.”
“OK, I see”, said Professor James, still being polite. “But would you be so good as to tell me what holds up the second turtle?”
“It’s no use, Professor”, said the old woman, not falling into his logical trap.
“It’s turtles-turtles-turtles, all the way down!”
I didn’t get it till I visited my brother and sister-in-law. They raise rescued Sulcata and Desert Tortoises. I took the above picture but didn’t see that the mama was carrying one of her babies on her back. When I looked closer at this photo, I realized, “HEY! I’ve got the beginning of a new planet! Turtles all the way down!”
It’s Friday, go take a break and tip back an adult beverage in honor of the Turtles… all the way down!
