Time to rock and ROLL II
The previous entry regarding “rock” was the “resurfacing” so to speak of the “seeking” blog and will be part of this combination of the upcoming pod… the second part? Well when you have Rock you’ve got to have roll.. and sometimes it feels like Led Zep when it’s been a lon, long, long lonely time since.. but that’s over now!
Roll?
Since things move so much easier on wheels (physics tells us it only takes about 5% as much force to move things on wheels as dragging them and when things are kind of a drag we all know that right?
However, there are a lot of types of rolling like there are communities that use huge rolling logs to move entire houses from place to place. These people don’t have fancy stereo or bluetooth but they really know how to walk and roll. They also know how to roll stop and drop when needed?
Okay rolling? WE roll a lot. Ever since we figured out the round shape of a wheel and started using it—which was supposedly somewhere 3,000 plus years before the modern era so 5,000 or so years ago. And so.. what are some of the most useful and least thought about “rolls” we might use to seek peace and joy?
Well in my family and in many others I suspect you can’t say the word “roll” without conjuring the word cinnamon before it—and yet while they might be part of many snacks and breakfast dreams.. the rolls that inhabit our lives and get little respect most the time come in the form, not of pastry—but of paper. Yes we are speaking of paper towels and of course the Big TP.
Paper Towels
Americans and we keep track in terms of dollars of course—use about 20 billion dollars worth of paper towels per year and that’s in addition to the cloth towels that we use to the tune of 3 billion worth as we buy 200 million of them annually. But the cloth ones don’t come in rolls so let’s leave them hanging for now.
Now the paper towels come in rolls of between 60 and 80 feet per roll and now you can start imagining how far how the rolls would stretch.. but just relax combining them with the other big paper towel player so to speak makes this far more interesting.
Toilet Paper
This my friends is what “rolling” is all about. We use it for so many things and like so many things once we treat it with some disregard just throw it away. We not only expect it to dissolve we invest in it and then when it gets soiled we use industrial strength engineering to make sue it becomes forgotten. Oh sure during a pandemic or an upcoming storm it becomes important and sought after but then see you later alligator. Question: how many experiencing and people in our lives do we treat the same? How many do we flush and then expect to always be there when we need them? When the disposal thing isn’t there when we expect it how irritated and how quick are we to find someone to blame for not making sure we have the TP? So in the seeking peace realm maybe we should or at least could try to appreciate the TP and the people we have and will come in contact with and then let dissolve away. Maybe just once a day consider the human interactions that are so casually treated as temporary and disposable and maybe offer a bit of joy during those interactions?
Now back to the paper towel and toilet paper combo…
Some initial approximations indicate that if we stretched out —unrolled” all the rolls we use annually in America we could go to the moon and back with the stuff we use to clean our moon well over 2000 times and if instead we decided to circle the globe at the equator well that would be a significant JUMBO SIZE roll as we could circle the planet some 41,000 times. There is no question that this would be a very large roll and yet when the Earth is spinning would the roll be placed so that the paper came off “Over Or Under”???
Anyway it’s time for us to keep rolling along and the next entry will be something about —you guessed it “rock and roll” or rock music and it’s forms.. but for now. Respect the TP and don’t forget to put the seat down- or lift it depending on the actions that need to be completed.
Life is messy (clean it up with some paper if needed ) but don’t be afraid to leave a beautiful stain.
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