My Walk

My walk is wonderful. It is a mile through the Village Green Park to the Jackson Frazier Wetland.





The Wetland is ever changing and I see something new nearly every day. For example, do you know what happens when a cattail reaches maturity?





It's a fecund mess and the boardwalk gets covered in fluff at this time of year.




Aristotle noted that, 'Nature does nothing uselessly,' and Kepler paraphrased him with, 'Nature uses as little as possible of anything.'

But neither man must have been a careful observer of the reproductive process because where sex is concerned, nature uses a shotgun approach. A woman is born with tens of thousands of eggs and a man produces millions of sperm just so that they can produce a couple or three offspring in their lifetimes. Plants throw out millions of seeds in the hopes that one or two or ten will take root. Fish scatter their eggs by the thousands in open water. There is nothing conservative about this process, it is a Tammany attempt to stuff nature's ballot box with as many offspring as possible.