C is for… Vegetable?
Today while listening to Judy Collins in the car I reflected on one of my favorite quotes, by Heraclitus: “You cannot step into the same river twice, for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you.”
It is both scary and reassuring to think that even the most permanent fixtures of our day-to-day lives are not static things but evolving processes. And humbling in a way, to remember that our world is still figuring itself out around us even as we are figuring out our places (and paces) within it.
Even the chairs we sit on, the rooms and routines we inhabit, are a muddle of molecules quietly brewing themselves into the guise of solid permanence.
And all these things are infused with undercurrents of potential change.
Which can catch us by surprise if we haven’t been watching the rivers.
…
Or watching Sesame Street, apparently.
Yes, I can hardly believe it either, but it seems Cookie Monster has become a health-conscious veggie-phile…
