The evolutionary gift to Homo Sapiens of the foundational capacity for interactive communication, enabled the ability to retroactively relate empirical experiences, and proved to be existential to his survival and continuence. Uncountable eons of Man’s continued advancement preceded the miraculous development of distant interactive (“virtual”) communication, enabled by the contemporary miracle of the internet.
Said innate and foundationally systemic predecessor of the modern, internet-facilitated, “virtual” transmission of interactive thought and provides the cogent theme of this writing. We will elucidate the subject following an autobiographically inspired but contextual note.
We have gratefully attained the remarkable age, appropriately described as “late octogenarian,” arriving in relative good health but, unhappily, in need of a “walker” for ambulation. Notably, we are fortunate to be able to report that our adult life has been fulfilling notably, as husband and father, and contextually, as eternal student, reader, traveler, and regular participant in the rewarding lifetime inclination to inquiry and contemplation.
Despite the loss of the physical ability to walk about unassisted by the slow and plodding employment of a “walker,” we have observed that our frequently thematic, life-long conversation with ourself, referred to in our numerous (1,250) blogs, together with our elective reading and travel have enabled a recollective library of memorable or non-internet (“virtual”) library of contemplative reflection, consistent in their enjoyable reprise. From Socrates and Spinoza to Sigmund Freud, Dickens and Trollope to Faulkner and Roth, from the plays of Euripedes to Arthur Miller, from rafting down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon to the Louisiana Mardi Gras, from Paris, Bruge, and Prague to South Holland’s Keukenhoff Gardens and the Galapagos Islands, from the various Caribbean Islands to Cape Town, South Africa; personally from marriage, children and divorce to happy remarriage, from the days of kindergarten, College and Law School to practice and retirement. These recitations of experience are among the library of reprised “virtual” exercises of our intimate recall.
We often luxuriate in our comfortable easy chair with a plethora of “apps” to recall and virtually experience.
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