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Hide and Seek

If true, as anthropologists report hide-and-seek entertains children of all languages and cultural sport throughout all humanity's extended family history. Might hiding-seeking ubiquitously regenerate among children as among haunted-hunting adults? Gathering food to hide from hunger, daily plowing for payroll plunder, postulating procreation, BusinessAsUsual play as work, taking turns hiding from god, trusting divine spirits to continue seeking my blend-in brand of humanity. While too tribally divine to attract anthro-specialized notice, my roommate cat, Simon, also excels at both hiding and seeking, terrorizing my unsuspecting shoe laces as I naively strive to pass him by, leave him behind, as if I were in charge of times to hide and reasons to seek. Is not all science and life, adult and childhood, human natured and other natured, some hybrid hide and seek as marvelous stimuli for curious research response? Wondrous where and how our cat-gods of destiny will pounce, not sure we prefer too soon over being last to win such grace, joining conscientific players of adventure evermore, seeing sight beyond time's domesticating hidden door.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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