Circles
As I was sitting eating my morning bagel (well, morning for me, afternoon for everyone else) and watching a documentary on "Dances of Ecstasy", it occurred to me how often I/we run into circles in life. (They are everywhere I tell you!). We are sitting on the surface of a planet traveling in circles (days), we are riding in circles (approximately) on this planet around a star (years).
I look in the sky at night and see the Moon traveling in a circle around our planet. These are obvious. Everything we identify as real, as far as matter in this universe is composed of particles with electrons going in circles around them. In fact all we ever experiences is the fields of these circles of electrons, and nothing inside of them. And by circles you will now guess I am talking about things in the motion of a circle, not something static.
Of course our sun is a star going in a circle around the galaxy. The galaxy itself is spinning in a circle. Some binary stars spin in circles about each other. Some galaxies spin in circles about other galaxies. Perhaps our universe is spinning also.
But let me bring things back to earth. I leave my house to go to work. My wheels spin in circles to get there. I see circles all over the road. I get in a jet to fly across country and turbine engines spin in circles to get me there. I go back home turn on my computer, or TV. The power comes from turbine generators which spin in circles to produce the power.
I take a bath and pull the plug, and the water swirls down the drain in circles. I visit my Mom in Oklahoma and a tornado sweeps by in violent circles of air. I visit Florida and a hurricane is coming traveling as huge circular currents of air. Our cat chases its tail (I know its usually dogs but we have a weird cat).
The lawn sprinkler, the car radio knob, the toilet flushing, the top spinning, the electric motor, my computer fan, the rotisserie, the whirling dervish, the ballerina, the skating champion, the ball rolling down a hill, the merry-go-round, the gyroscope, the tumbleweed. (What if all circles were squares?)
Everywhere I look there are circles. I sometimes wonder if there are not many circles within my own life. Whew, I think I'm getting dizzy.
I look in the sky at night and see the Moon traveling in a circle around our planet. These are obvious. Everything we identify as real, as far as matter in this universe is composed of particles with electrons going in circles around them. In fact all we ever experiences is the fields of these circles of electrons, and nothing inside of them. And by circles you will now guess I am talking about things in the motion of a circle, not something static.
Of course our sun is a star going in a circle around the galaxy. The galaxy itself is spinning in a circle. Some binary stars spin in circles about each other. Some galaxies spin in circles about other galaxies. Perhaps our universe is spinning also.
But let me bring things back to earth. I leave my house to go to work. My wheels spin in circles to get there. I see circles all over the road. I get in a jet to fly across country and turbine engines spin in circles to get me there. I go back home turn on my computer, or TV. The power comes from turbine generators which spin in circles to produce the power.
I take a bath and pull the plug, and the water swirls down the drain in circles. I visit my Mom in Oklahoma and a tornado sweeps by in violent circles of air. I visit Florida and a hurricane is coming traveling as huge circular currents of air. Our cat chases its tail (I know its usually dogs but we have a weird cat).
The lawn sprinkler, the car radio knob, the toilet flushing, the top spinning, the electric motor, my computer fan, the rotisserie, the whirling dervish, the ballerina, the skating champion, the ball rolling down a hill, the merry-go-round, the gyroscope, the tumbleweed. (What if all circles were squares?)
Everywhere I look there are circles. I sometimes wonder if there are not many circles within my own life. Whew, I think I'm getting dizzy.
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