Meandering Thread on Friday the 13th

Last month, we had a Friday the 13th.  So I thought I'd read up on it, and came up with the following to post.  You see how a thread can run in a meander.  That's the beauty of the internet:  So much is at our disposal, that we can follow our thoughts wherever it may lead and pick up something we can treasure, even small, along the way.

Stirring finale to "William Tell Overture." Composer Gioachino Rossini has significance for today...

"The Mom Song," to the tune of "William Tell Overture." If you're a Mom, you can totally relate!

This song was part of another thread I wrote about - A Follow-the-String Journey.  Anita Renfroe was the creative Mom behind it.

Gioachino Rossini

Rossini thought Fridays were unlucky and 13 was unlucky. So when did he die? In November 1868, on Friday the 13th!

How crazy is that?

The 1980 slasher "Friday the 13th" became a cult hit. The film series has since raked in $465 million. I'd say that's pretty lucky!

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Jason, the slasher in "Friday the 13th," forgets to wear his belt...

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So if you happen to live or work in the jungle, please do be careful! Jason may be watching.

Science Humor on Newton and Einstein

In the last several weeks, I've posted on a particular theme on Friday, across all my social media timelines.  Since science is a major interest of mine, and in fact has an integral place in the Tripartite Model, I thought I'd craft a theme on science humor.

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Someone has been spending way too much time contemplating Newton's Cradle.

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Einstein's cat figured out the correct equation for the Special Theory of Relativity.

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If I am positive, does that mean I am thinking like a proton? Never mind. Happy Friday!

The Chicken and the Egg Came First

So which came first?

This video doesn't actually settle the debate, because it could've just as easily concluded that the egg laying species (or proto chicken) came first. 

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One reason we have difficulty resolving the chicken-or-egg debate is our tendency to look at things in a linear, cause-or-effect way: Instead, anything (or anyone) can be either (or both) at any given time. So things are multilinear and multidimensional. 

No doubt, life form and evolution itself ran on multiple tracks.

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The chicken-or-egg debate is actually a more sensitive one: Are we the product of Godly creation or the evolution that Darwin conceived? You can weigh in on this. But I'd argue that this debate, too, overly simplifies a complicated issue: Some may believe aspects of both or something else altogether.

Which brings us to Mama Bailey adopting 10 orphaned chicks...