THE CAVE AND THE DITCH

How is it that some of us, probably including many listeners to these Capers, become so enrapt? Committed? Predisposed? HOOKED on our boats?

These two Capers tend to support the predisposed explanation, for it seems to me that the lives of many individuals are die-cast by exposure to some copacetic stimulus that occurs very early in life. The quest to identify that stimulus can be futile unless one truly concentrates on her origins. Success in that quest can be quite comforting when one attempts to apprehend the course of life.

It may take a special place or a specific time — such as playing in an irrigation ditch or squirming in a cave — for such contact with one’s “Pre-Disposition,” These parables may suggest a way for others to find the source of this formative buoyancy.

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