Aren’t you glad the world is full of mysteries? Isn’t it pretty neat that, with all our know-how, many things still elude answers? Sometimes, in trying to ravel out mysteries, the mystery itself becomes curiouser and curiouser. (Excuse me. I mean more and more curious.)
This morning, I read that the great mystery of Stonehenge has been solved. It is actually an ancient and gigantic calculator having to do with figuring out seasons, summer and winter solstice, and other events that mattered to people long ago. Tomorrow, somebody else may decide this solution is not correct and Stonehenge had a far different purpose. But, that’s the way with curiosity.
What is there about the human mind that pushes for answers? What is there that questions and wonders and guesses? If something seems pretty straightforward and evident, we will twist and turn it, push it here, pull there, and make a mystery where there is none.
However, mysteries still exist and I’m glad. We hear tales of Bigfoot and explanations of what it is, ranging from a figment of an active imagination to a creature from outer space. As for me, that’s one mystery I’d rather keep wondering about. I don’t really want to know.
Is there actually a Loch Ness monster? I kind of think so, but I doubt that it’s a monster. Is it a leftover Plesiosaur? That’s not an impossibility, is it, in a lake as deep and cold and dark as Loch Ness?
Why didn’t the people of Pompeii all vacate the city? A lot of them left but certainly not all. Why not? Didn’t they consider the warning signs of smoke, ashes, rumblings sufficient to get out of Dodge? I would have taken the first available boat far, far away.
Another great mystery: why do we ignore warning signs and think it’ll never happen to us? Earthquakes, floods, storms of all kinds rage around us. We see warning signs in political, social, economic quakings and rumblings; yet, on we go. Our blinders are up, our sensors are turned off and we believe ignorance is bliss. What a mystery we are; perhaps the greatest mystery of all.
Anyway, I like mysteries. 
They are what keep life interesting. Tomorrow, I want to tell you about a real-life mystery in the plant world. This mystery caused me to ask the question: have plants rebelled against a life of subjugation? Are they taking over?
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