Sometimes the things we want make no sense. My daughter bought a new hamster this weekend, despite my discouragement. She also bought, for this hamster, a new hamster house. This house included a wheel on top that orbits around a central tube on a little track. As soon as the hamster discovered this wheel, it immediately fell in love with it. It ran in the wheel for more than an hour.
Being in love with the wheel, however, it decided to make it more homey. So, it gathered fluff and food and filled the wheel with them. It created a cozy little nest in there, which is great, until it wants to run in the wheel. Now the wheel is a noisy maelstrom of fluff and food and bewildered hamster. When it runs, bits of fluff and food spray out from the airholes in the wheel and cover the table where the hamster house sits. It's a mess, and the hamster doesn't seem to be able to put two and two together to figure out why the wheel is not fun any more.
The Uncertainty Principle talks about our inability to observe certain objects without altering them. When I was a preacher, I remember people saying, "You'll never find a perfect church, and, if you do, don't go there. You'll screw it up." In the movie The Mystery Men, there was a super hero who could be invisible, but only if no one was looking at him.
How often do we destroy something we enjoy by enjoying it? It's irony and tragedy, a cosmic joke. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. How sad.
Good morning, everyone. How are you?
Later. Love.
