Well, it has been more than busy the last few days, but amidst a car that broke down, extra things for the end of season at my job, etc., I sat down for breakfast with a friend at a coffee shop that has a garden out back and a book library to boot. One side of the coffee shop is all full length windows, so, even sitting on bookside, we could look out at the garden which was now decorated with elves.
We ordered, and, as I sat there, I got this nudge to take further purusal of the books by my side many of which were dated to say the least. The last time I had been there I had pulled out some of their vast collection of National Georgraphics. National Georgraphics were the start of my adventures. My unmarried uncle, who had lived upstairs from us with my grandparents, had a vast collection of them, and I would look at them in wonder and amazement.
I now looked at something else in wonder and amazement. There squeezed in, on its side, between some hardcovers, well worn and with front cover hanging on by a thread was an original copy of The 100th Monkey by Ken Keys.
Knowing that I had been writing about this very book, my friend shot a look of surprise also. Opening the cover, distant recesses of my brain recalled what I saw in front of me in print. The book could be copied in part or in whole, in any way that any one wanted, for profit or not, because the book was not copyrighted. My waitress was kind enough to let me know that books could be borrowed till one's next visit, so this epiphany of wisdom that moved itself from past to future is now in my hands, at least on loan.
There are many tales in there about what we are doing to the environment and the dangers of nuclear weapons, including how the originator afterwards recoiled from his discovery, and many stories backed by scientific data all stuffed into this orange, yellow and white covered easy reading style book of probably not more than hundred or so pages. I plan to put a few of the stories from the book here, at a future date, but first I want to put up a few things by others that I have stashed. If you can find a copy of ithis sweet book on not such a sweet matter, I suggest you read it, considering all we are encountering at present, including these spring like days in the middle of December and no sign of snow right up to three days before X-mas with all news of after the 22nd on hold.
*public domain photo
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