Magical rituals (things done)

The amazing surrounds us. On this the 1st day of spring, March 20th, 3 robins were vying for nesting rights on the sunny, gravel driveway outside my window.

Will the world end in fire and ice? During this season of the ritualistic March Madness, central Ohio would probably vote for a final flood because rising waters surround us after unprecedented, torrential rains.

Carl Sagan the astronomer liked to wonder about the "billions and billions of stars."

Arthur C. Clarke wrote a story about Tibetan monks attempting to name the 9 billion possibilities of the name of God, but when they reached the last annunciation, all the stars began to go out.

1. Cell theory of life, 2. Germ theory of disease, and 3. Gene theory of inheritance utilize the idea of atoms. These three natural phenomena, discovered by scientists over the years, can be analyzed in terms of fundamental building blocks.

Mating rituals, nature’s rituals, imaginative rituals, evolutionary rituals - all seem magical. Arthur C. Clarke concluded that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."