Its come to me more than a few times that the world is made up of elements of various kinds and there is this table of periodic elements which are the maps and illustrations of our world. Some of the crystalline structures I’ve seen of silica, quartz, dolomitic cherts; are simply breathtaking in their elegance. Geologists have a wondrous world to work on and I think their tablet is the world-at-large and all its structure. I’ve envied them for more than a few reasons in the past because they take on time and space in a very interesting, provocative and wondrous way. As an archeologist at one time, we took on features, symmetry, logistics, space, and time as well. I was limited to 40k years though and geologists go on and back and even out into space. Wondrous! But prehistoric peoples touching their lives is also full of wonder…
It brings me to the periodic table of elements for people. We all seem to have shares of these common elements like truthfulness, honesty, equity, wonder and all the negative poles. In fact, in many people, most people, all people one can observe what element rules. We all want people to ascribe to higher moral, ethical, and other elements; but our makeup while cosmic in nature is human in composition. So we all have to share all of our elements and be just human but fly to the stars. Its what makes us the best and worst and other ways at things we do. But the real mystery is when you introduce others and their elements to the mix. As solitary human beings we sense out our own elemental lives; but people add a mix and complexity.
Its an interesting set of hypotheses to consider, fellow humans. As you blog out and in, consider what elements you are presenting for the rest of us. We all are made up of the materials that made the universe but we cull them all down to sets of principles, ethics, ideas, philosophies. Don’t tell me measurement of the way doesn’t matter and that results only do. Without measurements of effort, results don’t ever happen. So get honest with yourself in your periodic table of elements.
Lets all be good geologists, anthropologists, and scientists and redo our own particular table of elements.
