Monday, April 3, 2023

What Came Before

 

Who was the first gal or guy to wonder,


why? Who were they who decided to


step over the line and proceed into the


great unknown, the one to leave the


cave of practiced routine, the first to


light the fire of imagination and inven-


tion?



How many generations of primitives


did it take to affect change, breaking


through the rigors of tradition into


the wonders of the unknown?



How many of those explorers and


innovators of their times did it take


to get us here alive and thriving in


our current time and place?



Who was the first he or she to harness


fire, to first bandage a wound, to form


and utter the first word from


a gruff or growling grunt?



Who was it preceding the historically


renown philosophers, scientists,


inventors, writers, artists, musicians,


and athletes?



Who first to use animal fur to protect


the human body from changing climates


and extreme meteorological elements?



Who first discovered a numerical system


which would eventually lead humanity


mathematically into a world of progressive


discoveries?



I look around me and wonder who first


came up with all the crap we contempo-


rary human beings use on a daily basis?



Using stone on stone, did Cro-Magnon


make a to-do list reminding him of


what needed to get done around


the cave?



I usually forget something I need from


the grocery store if I don’t write it down


on a shopping list. Now there’s a thought.


I wonder who on Earth first came up


with that?



               -30-


Chris Hanch 4-2-2030





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