Late in the day Wednesday I am thinking about multiple realities. I mean the singular fact, – “the real” co-depends upon our minds!

What reality do you prefer? There is no single univocal, granite-like “real” no matter how comforting this ancient intuition has been for us.

What’s real is a feature of the synthetic processing of externalities impacting our bodies. Photons, pressure waves, molecules signaling nourishment either aromatic or flavor. Even the scrape of an edged broken-branch that draws blood. Yes, that’s it. Body and mind jointly  synthesize what we call “a world”. No definite division between mind/body, just an ongoing bent to synthesize, make “sense” of everything.

And there are multiple realities, stories stitched-up by our minds, the meaning of experience. If you should have a gift for mathematics, perhaps you’ve been fortunate to have learned the language of math and the procedures of physics, or biology, or chemistry – thereby to present a scientific story of the world… I am not gifted in math.  I’ll save the longer story for another time.

Perhaps you are entranced by form and color, and fortune has favored you with a background in art, perhaps a graphic artist, or film… There are many stories. There are modes of expression, the forms which reveal “a truth”, mediums of communication.

I read this morning that Europe is already experiencing dangerous late-summer heat, in mid spring. Two wild fires were burning in LA county yesterday. We’ve heard about the two tanks of methyl methacrylate that could explode in LA county. 40,000 people have been evacuated.

Realities, alongside blue skies, singing birds and a first poppy to bloom in the semi-wild portion of the back yard. Many more are to come soon.

So, what is to be done? A priority is to initiate, cultivate, shore up relationships with others who are at hand, available for a face to face word of greeting, for encounters of substance. Those mundane exchanges are truly acts of love. “Love will keep us alive” is no throw-away phrase. It is the nexus of the matter. Moreover love is tangential to tingly/warm feelings. Do what you can to acknowledge someone else. Your feeling state may not improve, – but you did what is right.

Enough!

P.S. We are among friends.