Like a Song and a Dance

Life is cacophonous (good word, that).  Life in this world is a chaotic tumble of contradicting principles and problems. One need only flip quickly through a few channels on the TV to hear advertisements, reality television, the latest new drama, all shouting over each other in their efforts to attract attention.  The continuing development of mobile phone and computer technology brings the chorus of cries closer and closer to home as it becomes easier and easier to remain plugged into the info stream. There is variety (that much lauded quality), but the sheer amount of, well everything, makes it a miracle that anything at all is compatible with anything else.


Yet, it is part of human nature to pair, group, categorize and sort.  Perhaps, a futile attempt to bring order where none really exists and is not even passively supported, much less actively encouraged.  We pair things by similar functions, by similar emotions, even by such mundane accidents as color or shape.  We search for the smallest semblance of design in our daily encounters. In fact, the act of grouping perceived similarities is the very method by which humans learn. We are hardwired to recognize any kind of shared qualities; to recognize harmony. We are biologically programmed to fit things together, like a song and a dance.


It is a uniquely human trait, this optimism in the face of disorder and chaos.  The ability to see the good, the true, the ordered in life, no matter how hidden, is one of the greatest gifts that man possesses.  Man (but especially woman) not only sees potential order, but excels in the act of putting things in order and bringing harmony where none was before. 


That is the goal of this blog.  To point out and show where order can be found in disorder and how different parts of separate puzzles do, in fact, fit together perfectly to create a new whole.  I hope, dear reader, that these posts provoke your own thoughts and contemplations.  At the very least, I hope they give you some satisfying way to spend a few moments of your day.


Cheers!