Writing in the wind

For those of you who are still unaware of it, I am currently writing to you from our cabin at Shuswap Lake. I returned from sailing on the 4th after a long day of travel, and will likely be coming home to Calgary on Wednesday the 13th.

At this very moment, a pretty interesting storm is coming in. The flag is full out, the boat is tugging at the anchor as hard as it can, and huge white-caps are all over the place. We are expecting thundershowers today and tomorrow, so I have a pretty good feeling that I'll be seeing more of this in the next few hours.

Now I'm stuck on what to write next. I find it interesting that even though the wind is blowing like crazy right into my face, I'm hardly cold at all. A few weeks ago, weather like this would have me bundled up and inside as quick as possible. Now I'm outside in shorts and a t-shirt, hardly feeling the wind at all. When I walk across the beach of rocks by our dock, I no longer feel the sharp rocks, I hardly notice it any more. It's interesting how the body adapts so quickly to it's surroundings to make your life easier, more efficient, and more enjoyable. If you've ever looked at the hands of a wood-carver, they are calloused and rough from their work. It's like they have their own kind of built in gloves that harden their hands to protect them. What causes the body to do this? Is it some sort of micro-micro-evolution?

In the same way, our body adapts long-term to surroundings. If I remember reading correctly, we have eyelashes to prevent dirt from entering our eyes during sandstorms and the like. Would the human body have developed those if there were no need for them?

Of course, then we have to go into the discussion of evolutionism vs. creationism, something I'm not particularly wanting to argue, and therefore I won't.

I just think it's so cool though how our bodies, without any conscious effort, make these adaptations. And so if it does it physically, does it not make sense that our bodies adapt in small ways mentally? It certainly makes sense that they would. Logic is a good example of it. Imagine if you had no logic, only memory. Math would become grotesque! Simple addition would mean the memorization of every combination of numbers, would it not? Memorize 2+2, but what about 2+3? It would be something else to memorize. Instead, logic does it much faster; 2+2 is 4, 3 is greater than 2, so 2+3 is 5.

Or maybe I'm way off base with these arguments. You decide.

One thing I am sure about is that our world would fall apart, literally, if friction were to suddenly disappear. Friction holds our world together. Nails would be easy to pull out, cars would have little or no grip on the road, and you wouldn't be able to stand up in the way that you do. I am of the opinion that if we suddenly lost all friction, our world would quickly collapse. Thank goodness for constants.

Anyways, I've jabbered on for a good long while already. I wasn't really planning on writing anyways, I just did for the sake of it (I'm actually really bored of Shuswap, seeing as I have no one to occupy my time with...)

So have a great day/night, don't forget to cheer Team Canada, and talk to me!

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