A Night at the Hospital - October 7 - Entry 2

It is 3 a.m and I am listening to Karen Armstrong as she traces the history of of religion and, in doing so, the history of the development of civilization as we known it. Armstrong speaks of the importance of movement and the power of fire for if one could steal the fire of another, one could also steal the persons cattle for the cattle always would folllow the fire.

Then, as if there was a commercial, interruption to an educational show, the voices of Simon and Garfunkle come forth singing "Old Friends". Perhaps this accident of the iPod shuttle function actually carries with it the message that we, the modern intellectual logical variation of man, do indeed have old friends in our distant ancestors