As a result of writing yesterday's post—or rather of dislodging its concluding joke ("It's probably because of all the meat they eat")—I have added "laughter" to Moristotle's masthead. Its tag used to read, "An ironic celebration of evolved life, love, and learning on Earth."
Now the masthead says, "An ironic celebration of evolved life, love,
laughter, and learning on Earth."
And how do we celebrate laughter?
By more laughing, of course.
Same as we properly celebrate love by loving, life by living, and learning by continuing to learn.
Fortunately, the best learning comes from loving and living, especially when we can laugh about it.
_______________
Footnote: The photo initially published with this post came from a quick google, which netted a group of anonymous, mixed-race, but all young people. To me, at the time, it was a photo of laughing
people. Nevertheless, I decided to replace the photo with my favorite one of myself laughing. I guess it could be titled, "Laughing Oldster."
Here's the first photo I considered using. I didn't decide against it because the individual laughing isn't human. He (she?) is
higher-animal enough for me. But somehow we can't be entirely sure that that
is a laugh, we are that different from
chimpanzees.
