(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Showing posts with label Dinosaurs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dinosaurs. Show all posts
August 23, 2023
June 23, 2021
Hanging Out With A Dinosaur
Not so hard to imagine when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
Here's one in the gallery, and he's sort of guarding the entrance.
With dinosaurs, you just gotta watch out for the teeth and the tail.
A domesticated pet it isn’t, yet some people don’t even notice it standing there!
We know we're getting old when we're hanging with dinosaurs or are we the dinosaurs as the next generation pass us by? ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Hanging Out With A Dinosaur
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April 28, 2019
November 18, 2017
Invasion of Dinosaurs
So what's with the invasion of dinosaurs.
First one is standing next to the checkout line in Whole Foods in Maryland.
Second one is actually on someone's terrace overlooking the beach in Fort Lauderdale.
Third one is the real McCoy from the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
Certainly, dinosaurs aren't cute and cuddly--even the plush ones from Whole Foods--they'd eat you and I for dinner if they could!
So why do we gravitate to relics from the Ice Age past?
Perhaps, just like looking forward to Aliens from outer space, the dinosaurs represent an important historical link for us, and thus anchor us in a much larger perspective of time and space.
In a way, it all points to the dichotomy between us as humans with great--almost endless--potential, and yet at the same time, how small we are relative to the enormous dinosaurs that roamed the earth of yesteryear as well as the distinct possibility of mighty extraterrestrials that we may someday (soon) encounter from outer space.
From this context, I guess what's really amazing is that we, as a people, are still here!
Despite our bad habits and unsustainable living, we continue to innovate our way out of own messes of greed, conflict, contagion, pollution, and resource depletion, and create a future far beyond what destroyed our predecessors or even what may come from current or potential future foes.
Like the economy, we think we can grow ourselves out of all our troubles--and who knows, maybe we can if we can continue to stay at least one or two steps ahead of all the challenges and threats--but, at the back (or front) of our minds is what if we can't or don't? ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Invasion of Dinosaurs
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