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We must all be part of the evolution of man(woman)kind. I sit here beginning my 5th book which I will be simultaneously reading along with the other four, and wonder about the time in my life when I was NOT reading. I mean, the past 3-4  years I hadn't picked up a book unless it was to review for a test I was giving.

Maybe evolution isn't a ladder as much as its a roller coaster of hills and valleys that we go through on the way to ENLIGHTENMENT. :)

What I am really saying is that I am on an intellectual feeding frenzy--I can't get enough information. I am studying my guitar, musical theory, reading historical and sociological theory literature, reading mystery novels, researching pedagogy, learning more about Malcolm X, writing more original poetry and research. I am just hungry right now! I love it! But, I wonder why it comes in spurts. Like I said, it was over the past few years that I seemed TOO busy to engage in this kind of stuff.

Recently, I have met some great new colleagues at work who share many common interests, my own kids are each at a more interesting age now--I mean as teens they are more prone to conversations than just me lecturing them about 'stuff.' My wife has always been a great intellectual colleague and continues to be so, but most recently, the insatiable desire for knowledge has surfaced.

Did LIFE just get to much before that I couldn't afford to explore new knowledge? If that's true then I would gather that life has loosened its' grip and now I can breath again.

Either way, I love where I am at because it means I am at a good place all the way around. Still, I feel like the monkey part of the evolutionary chain. Maybe, someday I will reach the advanced stage so I can stay on this 'high' that I am...