Politics and Science

There is a bird nest over the light by the front door. When returning from walking my dog, Lilly, I noticed a dead bird chick was on the doorstep under the light, and I buried it in the backyard. My mom said that she would move the nest after the other birds’ chicks left.   A Poem For Baby Birds   Growth is a process, A process of change. And prepares us to fly.   Whether we fly or not, The process keeps going.    

            Today, I re-read parts of a book that I bought probably at least 10-15 years ago, Lasker’s Manual of Chess. Lasker was the chess world champion in the early 1900s, was a person of the Jewish faith, and left Germany in the late 1920s or early 1930s in response to the rise of the Nazi party. Of the parts that I read, and I really enjoyed this line, “Of my 57 years, I have applied at least 30 to forgetting what I learned or read.” In this quote, I think Lasker has an idea similar to Albert Einstein’s, who said, “Education is what is leftover after one has forgotten what one learned in school.”