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Tag Archives: science
What Would Samwise Do?
So I’ve been doing alot of musing these days about loyalty, struggling with it, really. The loyalty stuff on my mind isn’t at all equivalent to the drama of trueheart Sam’s famous loyalty to Frodo & the Quest-To-Deliver-Middle-Earth-From-Evil…no, nothing like … Continue reading
Posted in Just an Everyday Life, Our Primate Nature
Tagged E.O. Wilson, Frodo, human primate, Kuumbwa, loyalty, Middle Earth, Mount Doom, primate, Samwise Gamgee, science
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The Walking Primate
I sometimes say that walking saved my life. That’s not the literal truth, but there were many days when it felt like that. Conversely, there were days when even walking around the grocery store felt like an impossibly painful chore … Continue reading