wittering - where is the balance

The family have departed this morning into their various routines.  Andrew went for a swim, my daughter to work and a rather sad Lillie back to London.  She will cope, these four chose to go to London to seek their fortunes,  Ben and Matilda have started on the long journey of employment in their chosen areas.  Also Tom who works in Manchester.  I also went to work in London and was there quite happily for a few years but the pull of the 'big city' is always there when you are young.

Now I cope with eyesight that I suppose is failing me.  it started a few years back when I found my judgment level difficult.  For instance cutting with scissors I am about a quarter of an inch out though I can still thread a needle.  I view all this with my usual questing mind, how far is far I wonder? I got rid of my car instantly, driving since 17 years old it was a bit of a shock but now as I walk into the Lidl car park I feel a certain superiority.  The thing is to order your life into a habit forming ideal of putting everything in their right place.  That is what I told my daughter this morning when I could not find the bread knife ;)  Whether there is enough time to turn tidy I have my doubts!

What is it I wish for my four grandchildren?  Well a better technical world than we have at the moment.  AI is a disaster waiting to happen.  Almost I could say that the computerised system is channeling our young down a dangerous void of opinionated, more often than not nonsense information, young males.  What happened in the handing out of genes that led the males to be more aggressive than the female.  It was a colossal mistake on the part of natural order.  

  

Actually the people around me are all gentle and perfectly focused (if you are reading me family) as I am sure the majority of the human population is.  It is just I went to Substack by mistake and watched two earnest young men analysis someone else's video.  We are all suddenly in the public limelight.  I sometimes think we should pull the plug on the internet and try to live without it.

At the heart of it all are the children of today moving away from the natural world we live in, prioritizing their human relationships above that of the world around them.  That homeostasis that Lovelock talked of is lacking not only in the natural world but within the social order.

Homeostasis is a self-regulating process by which biological systems tend to maintain stability. It is an organism’s process of maintaining a stable internal environment suitable for sustaining life. The word homeostasis derives from Greek, with home meaning “similar,” and stasis, meaning “stable”. Homeostasis is a state of steady internal, physical, chemical, and social conditions maintained by living systems. It is a technical term used in biology, physiology, and psychology. 

We have an obvious example in Trump at the moment, a chaotic figure causing a disruption in what is considered an even keeled Western society, if not elsewhere sadly.

  

But then the real world drops in,  Mollie is at my feet meowing her complaints once more.  Could it be fresh water, more food, the radiator turned up for more heat, or is she just  talking to me about world problems?