Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for January 04, 2025

The fly version of Walt Whitman

Thank you for spelling “whoa” correctly.

A fly moon.

Or that’s just a bug on the lens.

His name is Legion.

Rather than comprehending our humanity and our deep connection to our world, our universe, and nature, and ultimately, each other and all that’s within us. We go to war with everything around us and our own kind. I find it truly sad that so many people seem willing to die for a criminal and cause ruin so much around them, rather than learn math and engineering and make their world, and their lives a better place.

he’s looking up a fly’s …?

Extreme left field theory I have. We are currently on an electron that makes up what we would consider a sodium atom in a larger construct. Considering how many atoms are in a fly, Verne’s numbers are in the right area. Just as valid as any other theory and just as hard to prove. It goes both ways, our solar system is part of a bigger construct. Shows just how insignificant any of us really is.

Shoo, fly, shoo!

It’s a great big universe

And we’re all really puny

We’re just tiny little specks

About the size of Mickey Rooney

It’s big and black and inky

And we are small and dinky

It’s a big universe and we’re not