Daily Signet

When you are near death, it’s amazing how clear things become—not answers, but perception and vision.   If after one and a half million years, we have never found a final answer to anything, any question—except to mechanical questions, this should tell us answers are not to be had to nonmechanical questions.

All living things are designed not to answer such questions, but to call us to adapt to the reality of the organic, the vital. (The mechanical has a “reality”, but the vital has a reality of its own.) Adapt. This adaptation is to each individual’s unique perception and requires a unique perception that will never quite apply to any other event. So, there are no answers needed or possible.  Hence, either absurdity or creativity—unique, special and synchronous. Out of the perfect perception and by imagination, creativity can obtain beauty, joy, love, entheos. Answers are not needed, just adaptation.

Some of that adaptation is purely mechanical, but this is the most significant part of adaptation. It can be highly repeatable…but not the ever-changing, the unpredictable, the mystery of each moment. The glory of it.

William Boast

On This Day…

Beverly Cleary born 191, died 2021 in Oregon: author of children’s books.

Works: Beezus and Ramona, Mouse and Motorcycle, Ribsy

Quotes: “Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.” “I grew up before there were strict leash laws.” “I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed, they still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.”