An Autobiographical Reflection Around Darwin Day 2021

It seems so long ago…

I set-out to observe nature and i began to wonder how we became “us”
Books were among the first steps
Connecting what i learned in the past with the new

Questioning
Exploring
Discovering
Critical thought
Separating the real from the imagined
Separating the voices of authority from the voice of reason

Classroom lectures
Office hour discussions
Talks over coffee
A persistent quest to know
Biological
Psycho-social evolution

Adaptation
Survival
Consciousness

Creation:
Etchings on a cave wall
Preceded by shadows from the flames that illuminated the dark

It seems so long ago…

I set-out to find the poetry along the paths that led to “us”

Paul Cech has been writing poetry since 1970. Several of his poems have been published as Saturday Poems in the Pittsburgh- Post Gazette and the Thomas Merton Center of Pittsburgh has published several of his poems in NewPeople. Read other articles by Paul.