Mushroom Flower

This is Amorella. The mushroom in the center of the photograph appears to be a flower because of its shape. This is what orndorff thought when he first spotted it on a Mason Park woodchip packed walking trail. A closer inspection shows it to be a mushroom. If he had said upon to his friend and wife immediately on seeing it, “Look, a flower,” would this be an honest statement on his part? Science shows many observations may be valid but on further scrutiny are found to be not true. Certainly, by classification, a fungus is not a flowering plant.

Homo sapiens are the classification of human beings. From my perspective a better arrangement of words would be “being human” and even better would be “being humane”. 

According to Merriam-Webster ‘humane’ means “marked by compassion, sympathy, or consideration”. I, Amorella, tend to view the species as a whole first. Is the individual of the species compassionate, sympathetic or considerate of the whole species? Based on the above consideration some, like orndorff, would just as soon classify the homo sapiens species into two halves, the flowers and the fungi.

That’s right, Amorella. I would. The problem is that the species is not dividable, at least not honestly. It is with great difficulty that I have to agree that I am part of the fungi as I am a human being just like everyone else.

In the books, this acceptance into the species one is a criteria for honesty. Being human requires work. This blog is a part of Richard’s requirement just as writing his books was. In here, from my point of view, no one is an exception, least of all, orndorff. – Amorella.

Readers may not be interested in this. I think of your comment as a private one. I know I am no exception. Besides, I think people realize that being human requires work.

The aliens in the books live better as human beings than the human beings do. They didn’t arrive at their society without work.

That is satire, Amorella, and you know it. I realize it required work for you to round up all those ideas in my head and put them into written form. Twenty years is a long time. Still, I don’t think I translated all those the concepts correctly; plus, I made grammar errors that I didn’t catch. The published books are still in a final draft stage. I wanted to learn how the three books were going to conclude. Curiosity got the better of me.

Tomorrow the topic is human curiosity.

I don’t like the idea of being used, Amorella.

No, you don’t. And, I don’t like it either.

I don’t know where to go with that comment.

Good.