Thoughts Out of Season: A Journal

A single human life is impossible. The scope here, as in the internal system, is in no way limited - for example, to the real time relations with other humans. The scope is historical as well. Our genes and epigenes reverberate with the social environment we have inherited, going back to the dawn of homo sapiens, and beyond, in their forbearers; not to mention the near term experiences of the father and mother infused (literally) to the fetus. We cannot escape the inescapable, even if we were to emerge from birth and were placed immediately in isolation until death. -- from Entry 190820 The author lives in Gaithersburg, MD with his wife and dog.