I share your thought, Bill. Andrew <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On 5 July 2017 at 06:41, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Bill, I like the question itself, the recognition of the dross versus the > essential "stuff." This is a very engaging hypothesis, the sense that we > really are something and have something and need not stay so distraction. > Thank you! > > Sheila > > On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > Why must we - > > traverse the Darling River, > > accept shade from a coolibah tree, > > chinwag with Henry at Grenfell? > > > > We could cross a river, > > sit under a tree, > > meet someone at a place. > > But why even that? > > > > Why the compulsion to designate? > > For efficiency's sake? aesthetics? > > Was there ever a time > > we just took things > > > > for what they were, > > did stuff, > > without > > wording? > > > > bw > > > -- Andrew http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ Books available through Walleah Press http://walleahpress.com.au