What Happened Today? Went for a walk with Kay. Kay gave me a haircut. Went to the Clearwater Library. Poor choice of large print books. Next stop at the Largo Library. Found 3 more Stuart Woods books. Sandy’s Joe came over to curt some branches off a few trees. Paid him $300 for the work. Went to the races with Jen to see School Bus Figure 8. We also were supposed to watch a 50 Lap Late Model race. Partial rain-out. We saw the bus race but no late models.
GAIA- Planetary management:
81. The fact that these conditions appeared to have arisen and persisted alongside life led to the Gaia hypothesis– the proposal that the biosphere, like a living organism, operates its own “life-support” systems through natural feedback mechanisms.
82. Accelerating Evolution: Though we wake to a largely humanized world of suburbs and cities, governments and wars, each of us carries within us the birth and death of stars, and the long flowering of Gaia.
83. Evolution is usually dated form the emergence of life, that “almost utterly improbable event with infinite opportunities of Happening” (J. Lovelock).
84. But this event itself was a stage in a process that has continued since time, as we know it began– when, some 15 billion years ago, the big Bang sent pure energy flooding out into a waking universe.
85. As this energy dispersed and the universe cooled, a patterning set in, and stable “energy structures” emerged as in a new order, matter.