Give Peas a Chance
returning to the practical after indulging in the wishful
Give Peas a Chance belongs to the following groups:
All Things Poetic, Artistic, PhilosophicalGive Peas a Chance
Now that California is on fire again, I suppose it’s time for me to return from my various projects, transitions, false starts, resignations, investigations and incomplete thoughts.
Hope everybody had a nice summer.
Meanwhile, I’ve been poisoning a patch of innocent pods just to see what would happen to the peas.
Other pods, I’ve left alone just to give those routine peas a chance.
Naturally I’ve been raising almost as many caterpillars as I’ve been poisoning pods.
Just to see what might happen to the moths.
Most of the caterpillars that I’ve raised are immune to the poison that I’ve been putting in the pods.
They can eat all the poison they want and live to eat more on another day.
God knows that there’s enough poison to go around.
The main reason I’ve been poisoning the pods, besides seeing what might happen to the peas, is to see what might happen to the spiders.
Ya see eventually the caterpillars that eat the poison peas will turn into moths.
These moths will look exactly like the moths that emerge from the caterpillars who ate the unpoisoned peas.
They will look the same and maybe even taste the same but the immune caterpillars who ate the poison peas will have a different truth when they become moths then will the other batch of moths whose pea digestion was restricted to the non-poisonous peas back in their respective caterpillar days.
“Different truth, different consequence” as Aristotle might have whispered to Captain Ahab if they had ever met. Of course, the likelihood of fictional meeting non-fictional is always very poor no matter what happens to the spiders, if ya smell what I’m cooking.
And there’s a lot cooking in California.
Too bad we couldn’t have doused the fires of California with the floods of Katrina and called the whole thing a wash.
But so much for wishful thinking, even thought it is my favorite defense mechanism ( especially when the perceived threat is emotional rather than physical)
Let’s return to the practical and the poisoning of peas.
What will happen to the spider?
Stay tuned.
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