Blog 804 – 10.24.2017

Loving You Has Made Me Bananas

A friend whose blog I follow and enjoy very much, Joyshimmers, posted today an unusually short blog about how important the DNA is that we share with our ancestors. She said that scientists say that we share fifty percent of the same DNA as bananas. She deduced that we are half bananas and that two bananas would make a whole person. I believe that she might have exaggerated that second claim but is probably spot on with the first. I smiled as I read the piece remembering a funny song from my youth. The silly lyrics went like this:

“Your red scarf matches your eyes

You close your cover before striking

Your father had the ship fitter blues

Loving you has made me bananas.”

I believe we are far more that the sum of our parts, our DNA. The very atoms that make up our physical bodies are like tiny solar systems spinning with lots of relative space in between the tiny whirling spheres. Look out at the stars at night and behold the seeming so much empty space between them. It is love keeps us and those stars from flying apart, heavenly glue, as a dear friend once said, holds us together. Fear might make us define DNA as “Do Not Attach” but it might as easily mean “Deeper Natural Attachments.” Don’t you just love acronyms? Me neither. I’m still trying to figure out when someone types “lol” if it is supposed to mean “laugh out loud”, “lots of luck”, “left out lately”, or something entirely different. As moms used to say to small children, “Use your words.” Are we so vocabularies challenged or poor that we must ration our words? Acronyms drive me bananas but so do you in a good way. It is not a long drive as one might think. The scientists say we are already half the way there.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

Who thinks we are the top banana,

David White