There is an advertisement on TV, public TV or a common network channel  in cincinnati, which i think is totally brilliant. Brilliant in all ways, philosophically, medically, evolutionarily, spiritually, morally, ethically and even cosmically.  So this is an add for JEEP, and I am not recommending that anyone buy this car but am surely thinking this is a great comment on how to live life, maybe one of the best “sermons” i have heard.

It begins with a simple theme, a situation of confusion or dilemma, or abstract choice, and then a  situation depicting an about face, a change, recovery, or repair.   Aside from the background noise and the video images appropriate to the situation, the only verbal audio is  the computer-voice saying  “recalculating”.  This concept of event, reparation, and audio is iterated probably 8 times, each time with the word “recalculating”.  In biology we call this “adapt” or “die”.  The evolution of life has programmed into each organism a complex and so-far-poorly understood set of “recalculating” mechanisms that act to maintain the viability of the species, such as , iRNA, epigenetics, DNA error detection and repair, antioxidants, immune functions, cell proliferation, cognition, detoxication organs, hundreds and hundreds of enzymes all variable and ready and waiting to “recalculate”.

Not to requote an already well known quote —  “we are fearfully and wonderfully made” ready and equipped for recalculating every circumstance.

Never never lose your feelings of amazement of how adaptable we can be.