The photo is of a harbor seal: I finally got a photo of one of these smelly cute little fuckers surfacing near Olympic Sculpture Park.
I am currently enjoying spring. I recently heard the quip, "Living in Seattle is like having a beautiful girlfriend who is sick all the time." I think she’s shaking off her winter ick now. Tomorrow will be sunny and warm and I will soak up every minute of it.
I’ve been enjoying daily bike rides, birding, and reading my book in the sunshine.
My current reading is EO Wilson’s "The Meaning of Human Existence." I have no problem picking up a book with a grandiose title like that since it comes from a cautious and wide-thinking biologist who founded at least three theories within his field and shares my materialist perspective.
An illustrative passage (from a chapter where he addresses the driving force of social evolution and pugnaciously refutes another theory of natural selection) goes like this:
"The origin of the human condition is best explained by the natural selection for social interaction – the inherited propensities to communicate, recognize, evaluate, bond, cooperate, compete, and from all these the deep warm pleasure of belonging to your own special group. Social intelligence enhanced by group selection made Homo sapiens the first fully dominant species in Earth’s history"
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