Goal for the Day: Keep Zombie 2Pac from releasing another album.

So yesterday on my way into work, my brain was abuzz with ideas to write in my blog. It was going to be a 3 post day. But then life happened and I got nothing in. Nada, zip, zilch. And then I forgot it. We need a "Brain Blogger". It would just pluck thoughts from my head and post them for the world to see. OK, maybe that would be a bad idea.

One thing that I did remember I wanted to post about is poetry. I was at the gas station yesterday morning and I go up to pay. First I have to pull out my Speed Rewards card. But then, due to the layout of my wallet, I need to flip it around and open the flap before I can remove my cash card. While doing this I idly say "Let me extricate this from it's leathery tomb." For some reason I got the strangest look from the cashier.

My point is that poetry is unique to the human creature. Animals can learn to interpret certain sounds with certain events. You should see our dog jump whenever anyone mentions the word "treat". But they cannot see deeper than that. Humans can reason by analogy. They routinely substitute one thing for another. The words on this page are just glowing electrons on a screen. It is the ability to see meaning in arbitrariness that allows a person to understand it.

Without this iniate ability, we could never understand the purpose of Jesus on Earth. He is the ultimate analogy, in meaning and in truth. He substituted Himself for us. Whenever I stop to think about it, I find it evermore amazing.