CHRIST
IN WINTER: Reflections on Faith from a Place of Winter for the Years of Winter…
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Our friend,
Kathy, is now a grandmother, but like most old people, didn’t use to be. In that
nether time, she was asked by a little child if she were one. She admitted she
was not. “Well, you’re wrinkled enough to be one,” he said. I’m sure he meant
it as a compliment, because he knew that wrinkles are a sign of intelligence.
Like
most old people, I spend a lot of time reading in quantum physics,
sociobiology, and brain research. Well, I spend most of my time eating and
sleeping and playing pickle ball, but if there is any left over…
From
all my scientific investigations I think I have discovered the secret of intelligence.
Wrinkles.
Wrinkles
are what separates humans from less intelligent species. The brain has
developed wrinkles in order to have more room for neurons to operate on the
cerebellum without having to expand the skull to unmanageable proportions, sort
of like Andy Williams. The little crevices are called sulci and the ridges
between them are called gyri.
Incidentally,
one of the most popular sets of names for twins in ancient Greek science
fiction was Sulci and Gyri. [1]
So,
the more wrinkles you have, the more intelligent you are. That is why old
people are smart enough to be grandparents, even if we aren’t. We’ve got the
wrinkles.
John
Robert McFarland
1]
This is not true. It was inserted by Autocorrect, which is the modern source of
all sins, sort of like the snake in Eden used to be.
The
“place of winter” mentioned in the title line is Iron Mountain, in Michigan’s Upper
Peninsula [The UP], where life is defined by winter even in the summer! [This
phrase is explained in the post for March 20, 2014.]
I
used to keep a careful index of all the things I told in this blog so that I
would not repeat. That has become unwieldy. Now I just trust to… what’s it
called… oh, yes, memory. Sorry about repeats.
I
have also started an author blog, about writing, in preparation for the
publication, by Black Opal Books, of my novel, VETS, about four handicapped and homeless Iraqistan veterans who
are accused of murdering a VA doctor, in 2015. http://johnrobertmcfarland-author.blogspot.com/
I
tweet as yooper1721.
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