sunday, 28 june
Jessicca…
Somewhere in
the neighborhood of four billion years ago the most meager expression of life
first occurred here on Earth. It was a
marriage of chance with necessity.
Life
self-perpetuates its molecular dance through the use of molecular information –
something we now refer to as DNA as well as its many offshoots – RNA, proteins
and other inanimate structures.
Of course,
all this organization requires energy.
Life receives this bounty from our star, the sun. It’s measured to us in powerful bursts, known
as photons.
All living
forms have found a way to harness the laws of elementary particles and utilize their
potential to spawn the curious phenomenon we call life.
We
customarily view life as a variety of discreet forms even though these entities
require the most intimate interaction among them in order to survive.
The Earth is
rich with green solar panels. Their
purpose is to convert the sun’s energy beams from photons into sugar – the chemical
fuel that serves purposeful acts.
Plants
capture light’s energy and animals find clever ways to rob them of it.
Life is an
enormous enterprise. It has become the
purpose of Earth.
Then
something startling happens. Life
delivers a new dimension to existence – consciousness.
Consciousness
moves beyond the mode for mere survival.
Consciousness
interprets and creates new suggestions for what it knows.
Love,
Dad
© Tom Taylor