Love waves

Gravity waves reach us after the collision of two black holes and billions of light years.

If only two black holes would suck up all hate, collide and cover us in waves of love.

Gravity waves

What the hell are gravity waves? Well, they are not going to make your coffee taste different or or help you figure out what love is. In fact, they are the slightest murmer of a celestial event that happened a billion light years ago.

So what's the big deal? One human mind, weaving the threads of thought of previous great minds reconfigured the universe and predicted gravity waves 100 years ago. Scientists who followed and put their faith in Einstein worked intensely and waited.  Yesterday brought preliminary confirmation.

This is an amazing human achievement. Yet it will go lalrely unnoticed while we throw award after award at celebrities, giving them our time, attention and adulation.

Hate$

Forget morality, ethics, religion. How much money and human resources do we waste to deal with hate, abuse of power, fear and insecurity? Who benefits from circumstances? Who's complicit? Is this the bottom line of the human condition?

Valentine's gift giving for women

Of course gender equality means that Valentine's Day isn't for the ladies to receive the love. So ladies, here are some suggestions for Valentine's giving.

1.   You buy the roses and candy and show up at his office with them.

2.   On Valentine's Day morning, while you're both still in bed, make a grand gesture of tearing up the       latest honey-do list.

3.   Turn nagging for a week into gentle persuasion.

4.   Suggest that you both agree to spend no money on one another on Valentine's Day.

4.   Pick up all his dirty clothes from the floor on Valentine's Day and smile about it.

5.   Let him pick a day which is totally devoted to sports.

6.   Go to a mindless action-adventure movie with him.

7.   Tape "I love you" on every article of clothing he'll wear that day.

8.   Call up his mother, and tell her you love her.

9.   Dress and act like a 50's housewife when he gets home from work.

10.  For the entire day, tell him only positive things about himself.

Valentine's gift giving for men

If you thin about, the whole business of roses, wine and  candy is just marketing to sell those products. Marketing creates the expectations and we are shamed into meeting them.

So what about these gift suggestions:

1.   Put the toilet seat down for a whole week.

2.   Pick up your dirty socks for a whole week.

3.   Call her on the hour every waking hour to tell her you love her.

4.   Wash the dishes without being asked.

5.   Stay at home with her once instead of going out with the guys.

6.   Don't whine during or after a chick flick.

7.   Make her some candy.

8.   For the next five times, remember to stop at the store on the way home.

9.   Do some enthusiastic snuggling at night.

10.  Remind her of why you love her.

Growing

Some people never grow up.

Some people grow up but never grow out.

Some people grow out but never grow beyond.

Some people grow beyond but never bring beyond back into themselves.

Church

Some people go to church on Sunday so they don't have to think about God during the week.

I think of God during the week so I don't have to go to church on Sunday.