Not a bad title for the progression of nature as well as popular soap opera. It occurs to me that even as the human species moves doggedly to its destruction, the universe will persevere. Each planet, in whatever galaxy, will continue to move according to natural laws. We call them chemistry and physics reacting through time upon the energy that is the matter in us and about us.

Whatever we name them, they continue to move, to develop, to change. But there is no real change only progression. And how little control we humans have. People live, love, work, and scheme and the natural laws flow in and around human actions as they do as a constant influence upon all animals and plants and soil.

The ancients saw earth, water, air, and fire as basic elements required for life. And redefined with present knowledge they still are. Only scientific understanding explains how and sometimes why they are basic. Today society is just as afraid of science as it once was of natural disasters like earthquakes, tornadoes, or volcanic eruptions. To study and search and postulate is how we discover what nature is all about.

We don't embrace every discovery as final and why should we? Our minds cannot fathom the complexities that go into the facts that we uncover - what came before or how things came together to be what we finally see as our 'discovery'. But that doesn't diminish the awe of that discovery.

So we move what we call forward toward more discoveries. And there is much satisfaction in that.