After several days of intense activities fueled by curiosity and enthusiasm, I discovered Riri sitting peacefully one morning on the grassy slope where I had been dozing what seemed about a lifetime ago. As he squatted silently in apparent in contemplation of his domain, he resembled one of those amiable little stone gargoyles…this time it was my turn to interrupt the reverie…I approached and sat without speaking so as not to startle…I found myself contemplating my own inner domain. There was now a fascinating gnome in the landscape, who after allowing a few moments for me to settle, asked matter-of-factly, “Whazzup?”
Where does he get this stuff…”Where do you get this stuff?…your words, the ones you don’t learn from me…Where do they come from?”
“They in the air…I try…”
Despite limited opportunities, our ability to communicate had continued to improve. His vocabulary was growing in proportion to a tremendous expansion of familiarity and awareness, but his diction and grammar remained, for the most part, a humorous adventure. He really did try…but I still couldn’t understand where or how an alien could pick up some of the jargon of pop culture, or for that matter, ice cream, or politics, or to know to bring my wife some flowers…
“I try,” he repeated, “air full of stuff, I watch, listen, taste…I try…”
I was lost… “Air…? What do you mean?”
“Earth air full of stuff, I see I hear, I try, so much stuff… you no see, no listen …maybe feel…sometimes gobblegook hard for unnerstand…so much…
“Do you mean vibrations?”
“I think…like dance sound…but different…too much…not good for unnerstand, not good for mindthink…hard to get, for listen…vibrations…ye s … everthink vibrations…music…light…vibrations…heat… talk…telebision… rainbow…yes, and more…rainbow…everthink…you…me…’lectric…can’t tell…you no see… everthink vibe…I feel,I see…you…not…not yet…not……………. See me…
“see you…”……What I was “seeing” was not yet clear, but instinctively I got that in addition to light and sound and communication stuff, the material world itself was vibrating, was composed of vibrating atomic particles…if you do a bit of googling, like I did that night…
We often see images of atoms as little, sort of earth- centers with electron-moons orbiting closely. The actuality is that if an atom’s nucleus which is where the mass ot weight is, were the size of a basketball, you would have to travel twenty-two miles to reach the buzzing electrons…This would mean at least an additional twenty-two miles before the next bit of mass…next time, better watch who you’re callin’ “spacey.” We are all more than a little spacey, it would seem
This simple, yet profound observation, is almost unimaginable, and makes every thing imaginable…perhaps any thing possible…Ashes to…ashes...dust to…
energy…from emptiness to full fill meant…
The air…full…of “stuff”…to “try”…
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