Once again, let’s take a break from stupidity, idiocracy, harm, and the frustration of people who just don’t get it (and are perfectly happy not getting it). Let’s look at the things that make living worthwhile. Something that is so powerful, so strong, so wonderful, that almost everyone on the planet has felt this. From the greatest tyrant to the most humble homeless.
Love.
Love is what brings us together. I won’t go into love being evolutionary or the chemical signals that we interpret as love. This post is just about basking in the wonder that is love. (click to enlarge the pics)
This is my best friend in all the world and his daughter. He flew with two of his kids from Oregon to be here for my 40th birthday. We played games all weekend long.
I love playing games too… hence
This is a game called Car Wars. I have played this game and its variants for over 25 years. That little rug rat in the front is my boy. Playing games is what we do (among a thousand other things). Is it weird to love a game? Maybe, but it’s fun, I enjoy it, and I enjoy spending time with friends playing it.
What else do I do?
Yep. That’s me and the boy. HI! We’re playing in one of the local parks. We waded a couple hundred feet down the creek and I pointed out fish (including some native cichlids) and other cool stuff.
Soon, my boy, soon there are even mightier adventures in store. You see, I know something. I know where there is a 55 million year old fossil layer, freely accessible to the public. Bwah hah ha… (Was that out loud?)
Beside my wife and my boy, there is something else that I well and truly love. He drives me absolutely insane sometimes, but he has been by my side for almost 17 years.
This is His Majesty, Nimitz, Kitten of Destiny… although he hasn’t been a kitten for a long, long time. I found him in a field out in the woods. He’s part bobcat. You can’t see the neck ruff, but it’s there.
This is his first experience in the snow. He stays indoors most of the time, because he attacks dogs. I’ve had to restrain him from attacking a full grown rottweiler. In his prime, he was about 22 pounds and his claws are absolutely stunning (and painful… very, very painful).
Unfortunately, he’s probably not long for this world. He’s sick almost all the time now. He can barely get up some days. I will be devastated when he finally dies. He’s been a part of my life longer than anything besides my wife.
And finally, a squee picture. Because I want to show you what true love really is.
There are few things in life that are more uplifting, tear inducing, super-huge smiling than pictures like this.
Atheists are not monsters. Atheism is not evil. We are people. I would argue that we, as a group, love more than any other group. We understand that our time on this Earth is all there is.
Share it. Enjoy it. Live it. Love it.
