BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Word of the Day | Dictionary.com

engram

EN-gram

 noun


1. The supposed physical basis of an individual memory in the brain.
 
2. A presumed encoding in neural tissue that provides a physical basis for the persistence of memory; a memory trace.
 
Word of the Day Dictionary.com: "You shut it away, but it has left a mark-an engram , like an inscription on your brain.
-- David Bilsborough, A Fire in the North"
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