Conversations For Transformation:
Essays Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
Conversations For Transformation
Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
And More
At This Very Moment
San Rafael, California, USA
July 13, 2009
At this very moment it's sunrise somewhere, a wave is breaking on a
deserted beach, lightning is striking a dune fusing sand into glass,
three plant species and five animal species have become extinct, a
rugby game in Gauteng
South Africa
is ending in a draw, a man is a cup of flour short for a cake he's
baking and has to go across the street to borrow one from his neighbor,
a woman drinking vodka in a bar doesn't realize she's over the DUI
limit, the international space station is completing another orbit,
nothing is happening in the Sahara desert, thousands of gallons of
water are melting off the polar icecaps, traffic conditions aren't
getting any easier on the New Jersey Turnpike, the captain is
announcing "You're free to walk about the cabin" on a transatlantic
American Airlines flight, a leaf is blowing over a cornfield in Kansas,
salmon are spawning in a
New Zealand
stream, there's a snowstorm making commuters late for work, a woman is
licking a stamp in a post office in Des Moines, a store is being robbed
in a Detroit suburb, a child is born in Iceland with no complications,
a rock pool on Ibiza is filling with water and there's no one there to
see it, another ten newspapers are switching from printed media to
online, a football field sized area of
the Amazon rainforest
is now lumber and bundled firewood, an aircraft is landing at Dallas /
Fort Worth, factory workers are clocking in, the warranty on an IBM
laptop computer is expiring, showgirls are changing costumes
entre-act in Las Vegas, there's a call for "Clean up on
aisle five!" in a Wal~Mart in San Diego, popcorn popping in a
microwave in a suburb of Tokyo has slowed to no popping,
rain water
is eroding a phone wire connection which will soon fail, a bee has left
one flower but hasn't yet arrived at the next in search of pollen, a
homeless person lies passed out in an alley, light from a supernova
explosion billions of years ago is heading toward
Earth
at one hundred and eighty six thousand miles a
second and won't arrive for a another few hundred years, millions and
millions of dollars are being spend on ammunition, four ants are
hatching from their eggs, Starbucks is closing fifty outlets and
opening fifty five more, a drop of dew is forming on a nasturtium leaf,
two children are working on their math homework, Old Faithful is
erupting, Johnny doesn't want to get up and go to school, a traffic
light is changing from red to green at an intersection in Sydney
Australia but there's no cars on the road to take advantage of it,
birds
are covered in oil after diving unknowingly through a spill off the
coast of Greece, the Dow Jones index is up a point, month old puppies
are shredding a pillow throwing feathers everywhere while their owner
is out, the teacher's nails
accidentally
scrape the chalkboard setting her pupils on edge, a man is buying an
airline ticket on the internet, a teenager is getting his first
speeding citation, a hunter is reloading his rifle, a brewing tropical
storm is ruffling the ocean's surface off the coast of Cuba, fresh
paint
is drying on a farmhouse in Kenya, your right index fingernail is
growing one millimicron longer, clouds are forming around a mountain
top in Venezuela, a telemarketer is leaving a message on an answering
machine,
a Beatles song is playing on a Golden Oldies radio
station, lots of people are hoping they've won the lottery, it's
"Last orders!" in a pub in Essex, the universe is
expanding, the woman on the train nobody smiled at is now home, a
shooting star brilliantly flames out but can't be seen because it's
daytime, water from a recycling plant is being drunk for the fourteenth
time, a cigarette smoker is grinding his butt out with his boot heel, a
football coach is having his
ear
pierced, a woman in Beijing is trying out a new mascara, a mountain
brook babbles carrying leaves around pebbles, three nuns are praying
silently in a chapel, a boy and a girl are losing their virginity
behind a haystack in Idaho, a bucking bronco has just tossed his rider,
a man in Africa has just died of AIDS, a commuter's right front tire is
about to go flat on Route 66, small pieces of space junk are burning up
re-entering the atmosphere, a spider is spinning a web in the eaves of
a hut in Jamaica, ink is drying on a handwritten love letter, life is
turning out just as it's always been turning out exactly as it should,
the umpteenth rerun of a Looney Tunes Porky
Pig cartoon is ending with "Th-th-th-that's all,
Folks!" at this very moment.