Saturday, October 18, 2008

Mystery of Life




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LIFE: The first and Last Mystery


Life goes on and on and on.

It seems I have been and done a lot of things in the 27 year duration of this Independent Study Course (Life 501 0 credits), (in fact more than I ever imagined could be possible), and yet all these events and personality changes have fit seamlessly into my allotted time. Isn't it incredibly neat the way in which Life works?

Sometimes even the disasters bring a certain wisdom, which can apparently only be got thru shocking, devastating sorrow, like this one which I reported in “earthprobe”:


SMALL PLANE CRASHES” (headline from The Honolulu Advertiser clipping, December 1972)


"A small private plane crashed yesterday into the sea near Maui. The pilot and the two passengers were apparently killed instantly. The plane hit the water with great impact and searchers have discovered no trace of the occupants. A plastic-wrapped paperbound book was found floating on the water with a small amount of debris which made it possible to identify the..."


I wonder, Elizabeth, which book it was?


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