In writing the narrative about our species in which we head for star systems as a investment in the nest egg of nest eggs (thus, the timeline that includes an event 14017 days away), one must consider the alternative timelines and subplots galore.

That, or Zsa Zsa Gabor’s family history…

In any case, it is the case of the glass case of one’s household gods we consider at this moment.

What are your household gods?

Religious/Sports/Music/Dramatic Arts/Business/Political/Literary/Scientific figures?  Holiday figurines?  Your pets?  Hobbies?

These and other questions will fill the spaces between now and then.

In hindsight, the decades to follow will look like a mad dash.

We, however, are living from one moment to another in slow motion, it seems.

The supercomputers woven into your fabricated fashions will drive us maddeningly happy with joy and variety unknown, or barely imagined, by previous generations.

As you know, generations have shortened from 20 years to 10 to 5 to 2 to…what next?

Just like ocean waves that overrun each other, trends will pass by us too fast for us to notice until retro trends show us what we missed the first, second, or third time.

After all, what is faster than the speed of light?

After the Higgs boson, what’s going to hold our scientific interest?

When was the last time a chair seduced you into taking a seat?

Are you seated comfortably and ready to listen?

Good!  Let the story begin again anew…