In honor of this auspicious occasion, today's word is:
Genesis
I think it is very natural for someone to connect the word Genesis with the bible, being the first book therein, but I’m not too religious of a fellow, and I don’t connect to the bible so well.
To me, Genesis brings up visions of a stormy, lightning prone primordial Earth and a rocky cradle cupping an amino acid soup that first develops the infant origin of life. I think I saw that on a Star Trek episode. Supposedly only one true beginning occurred, so all other beginnings have developed from pre-existing conditions. Everything comes from something, life from the primordial soup. It always seems that the stage is set, and then something… unexpected occurs.
This beginning cycle is repeated over and over all throughout time, whether it is the birth of a star or the growth of a sapling struggling to break through the soil. Unfortunately, everything that comes into being must fade away, mountains are eroded, glaciers melt, and Roman walls eventually crumble. Though inevitable, decay can often be postponed, even warded off for a time. A star may extend its life through accretion, Everest gains height from the very forces from which it was born, and an oak may continue on through the seeds that become its progeny. All of things must touch their source to continue. Even amphibians remember the water as their origin; when they forget, they dry out and die. All of life’s great experiments end when they lose the connection to the beginning, and this occurs too often too soon. In my eyes we’ve wandered, many of us at cross purposes, but today we get back to touch the beginning, knowing our source and restoring ourselves. Reaching back to the murky primordial soup of the Delaware River, I believe today we remember our genesis, and thus the stage is set.
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