I was affected by the movies I watched as a kid. I can remember seeing some old mummy movie, that was chock full of archeologists. From that point on, I started to dig around in the backyard with a hand trowel. I never found anything except for rocks. Which was fine by me. But. That isn’t the case with everyone. In 2002, the world’s oldest wooden wheel was uncovered.
The 5,000-year-old wheel was found in Slovenia. That’s just south of Austria, which is where more vampires are found, rather than the mummies. Anyway, now that wheel is kept in a museum in the capital city of Ljubljana. Radiocarbon dating was used to determine the wheel’s age. It was probably attached to some old cart, which followed some old horse, and carried some old vegetables. None of these things were found with the wheel, so perhaps the cart truly was before the horse.
Speaking of “old things and the unknown: brings me to the next revelation, albeit otherwise unrelated. It is this: Our dead skin cells are the main ingredient in household dust. I don’t really know what I want to have in my household dust, but I am certain it isn’t anyone’s dead skin cells.
But it’s true, according to researchers at Imperial College London. We, humans, shed around 200 million skin cells each hour. Blech. All that dead skin has to go somewhere when we’re indoors. And the dust it is. Truthfully? We put snakes to shame, we shedders.
Here is yet another fact about the old and unknown. Sudan has more pyramids than any country in the world. When I think of pyramids, I think of Egypt. But Sudan has way more of those pointy structures. The numbers aren’t even close. Egypt has 138 pyramids. Sudan tops things with 255. Which sort of comes full circle to those early mummy-filled archeology movies I watched.
Full circle.
The phrase “to come full circle” typically refers to a circumstance when something or someone gets back to the same way as they were in the beginning, after going through many changes.
To me, this doesn’t tell the whole story. When something returns to the place it started doesn’t seem like a circle at all. It suggests to me that something moves forward and backward again, until resting back at the place where it started.
When I think of a circle, I think about infinity. Eternity. The movement of time, with no beginning and no end. A continuum.
Like the circle of life. The way of nature taking and giving back life to earth. In this way, the circle symbolizes the universe being sacred and divine. It represents the infinite nature of energy. In the circle of life, when something dies it gives new life to another. That beautiful Law of Conservation of Energy, which teaches us that energy is neither created nor destroyed.
That energy circulates, moving through its channels, going exactly where it is supposed to go. Round and round it goes.
That full circle.
Back to those early days, when I was digging holes in the backyard in search of something wonderful. It appears my life has been a series of these same actions, constantly digging, and searching, for the wonderful undiscovered treasures beneath the surface.
Yes. The Full Circle. And so it goes.
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“When life brings you full circle, pay attention. There’s a lesson there.”
― Mandy Hale
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“We are all joined in a circle of stories.”
― Linda Joy Myers
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“Follow your own circle. See where it takes you.”
― Adrienne Posey
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Are you a square? Nah. You are a circle. Hey. Me too.
