A picture of a mountain stream

When you stop and think about it, when you look around at things, it’s all pretty great. There’s just so much stuff. You’ve got…

  • trash bags
  • dragonflies
  • aspirin
  • jeans
  • cholesterol
  • the word “wow”
  • a picture of a mountain stream
  • speaker-wire
  • lightning
  • bullet lists
  • rubber duckies

… well – I’m not going to list it all here, but there’s a lot, as I’m sure you’ve noticed. It would be nice if someone somewhere was keeping a list of everything that exists. (Is that one of the reasons we made computers – so we could create a way to catalogue everything so we don’t lose track of it?) But is it a finite list? That’s something for you to think about. Can something ever fall off this list? I guess no one would ever know. Does an item on the list count as something new that also needs to be added to the list… like this:

  • the pancakes I made this morning
  • the list item: “The pancakes I made this morning”
  • the list item: “the list item: The pancakes I made this morning”

… you see what I mean. It gets pretty messy. If you were the list-maker, keeping track of the items on the list itself would really take up most of your time. I wouldn’t want to be the one in charge of it.

Let me know if you’re keeping a list like this. I’ve got a few things to add.