S’more Wisdon?

 After a couple of days spent saluting democracy or representative republic as it were it became evident that summer is not only in full swing,but is barreling forward at breakneck speed.  On a rather Morose aside what exactly is breakneck speed?  Is there a speed so fast that when something goes past. And you move your head to see it  the torsion breaks the watcher’s neck or is it a speed at which  let’s say if you had a wreck your neck would be broken?  If it’s the latter then the speed your neck is going is likely zero when it cracks and so most things at most times are going at or near that speed.   I know it’s a technicality, however, it does beg the question “do other speeds get described  in such a manner?”  So can you be traveling  at sprained ankle speed or muscle cramp speed, or a brain freeze clip?

Okay back to the calendar  moving like  a twitching eyebrow pace… yesterday was the day after the big summer holiday and it was also “Grahm Cracker Day.”  

Now what do we know about these crackers?  Well when Grahm invented these  crackers they weren’t invented to be tasty.  Grahm intended them to taste  bland (not adding any sugar to a largely unrefined  flour brick-like deal.  Grahm would have frowned on putting a piece of chocolate on one and throwing a flaming marshmallow on.  He wouldn’t have encouraged  putting frosting in between two halves of one or making a sweet pie crust from them.  In fact, Grahm wanted these to be  so bland that focusing on eating them might actually make folks less lustful.  Yes…you read that correctly.  Grahm claimed that these crackers would lesson sexual drive…. But after honey, sugar, and the tinkering of Girl Scouts…Grahm’s hopes were definitely dashed.  Which brings us to the Peace and Joy aspect of this.

You see….. the cracker  was out there in the world and then people started to say “how can we make this better?  How can we keep some of what it was and let other people in on something that can be better?  What can we add to it like a piece of candy?  What events (like family campingK) can be made better by changing this?  This leads to the question—

What can we find in distasteful things that might be transformed by our creativity?  Can we morph something rather ordinary into a crusty foundation for something spectacular like ice cream pie?  Well it might mean we have to crumble it up and reshape it—-right?  Do we have the courage to reshape and reconsider things in ways that might be fabulous?  

And speaking of change I saw this little meme today that seems to fit…. 

Life does not come wih a remote… if you want to change it you have to get up and change it yourself.