The subject of origins fascinates me. How do we know the beginning of something? When and how did it start? How we debate origins can have big implications.
Covid? Natural origins or a lab accident in Wuhan? Politics is all over the discussion. Side issues spring out like water from a leaky bucket.
Where do we begin to tell the story of the origins of the United States? 1619? 1776? 1787? Or ten thousand years ago with the beginning of the trek of the original inhabitants from Alaska down the land mass?
The beginning of the action in "To Kill A Mockingbird?" On this one I say it began the summer Dill first showed up.
When an idea pops into my head, from whence does it come? Sometimes it is not obvious. From my Freudian ID? From the Jungian collective unconscious? Spontaneous mental combustion?
In general the big picture I start with is the cosmologists who talk about the Big Bang that started the universe. We are all made of stardust. The other thing is that had there a single break back in time in our lineage none of us would be here. It's scary when you think about it.
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