Ben Douglass Digest

 Life is a series of episodes; good, bad, indifferent. That is all. Nothing more. So make the best of it, (be good, do good, help others) while you still have time on this pale Blue Dot.

 As the world cracks, deeply, decisively, Under stress of madness, Fanaticism, Covid-19, et.al... (The Pathos of Things imprisons me) I want to go back to another time And sit drinking espresso and noshing Bagels & cream cheese at a sidewalk cafe', On a warm and lazy Sunday morn In Athens, discussing with fervor History, the Odyssey and Greek Civil War With the poet Cavafy, even for A brief moment in time.

FIRST DAY: Big Bang! SECOND DAY: Great Expansion. THIRD DAY: Universe, nebulae, galaxies, stars, planets, moons, Birthed into the emptiness of spacetime. FOURTH DAY: Primordial Soup bubbled, gurgled, snapped, crackled, And popped on lucky orbiting rocks. FIFTH DAY: Little Blue Dot in darkest corner of Milky Way, Waited patiently for its turn (eternity to the 10th power?). SIXTH DAY: Millions, billions, trillions of Asteroids with magical frozen water showered the Blue Dot, And co-mingled with the Hot Soup. SEVENTH DAY: Life started on its gruesome & harrowing journey.