I slept well. It comes and goes. When it goes, my recovery time is shorter and shorter. My leg was good again this morning once I got up. There was some discomfort in my leg in the early morning hours. I have learned to run that tennis ball under my back muscles when my leg bothers me. The muscles on the side of my abdomen bothered me this morning. Treating them brought relief to my leg.
Dorothy was busy while I was waking. She was out doing a major shopping. She called once I was home. While we talked, I went out to trim the vine off the fence I shared with my neighbor. While I was out there, I did some shrub trimming. I have to remember asking Joe, one of the yoga participants, where to cut to trim back the heliconia.
Yay! I did more work on the PowerPoint for the presentation on my reading method. I put it off and put it off; then, I'm just fine when working on it.
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Musings:
I was looking up sexual practices in primitive groups. As I thought, most primitive groups do not require monogamy or fidelity. Only 16% of cultures studied make an issue over monogamy. It only became a practice once agriculture was developed. It was at that point inheritance became an issue. Before then, children we primarily members of the tribe. The purpose of procreation was to sustain the tribe. I didn't make any difference who the genetic father was. Children belonged to everyone anyway. There wasn't a lot of variation in parenting styles relative to what we have today because the parents were constantly monitored by the rest of the tribe. There were rules about how parents should treat children. It would be hard to deviate and get away with it, much as it would have been hard to steal and get away with it. If someone had something special, everyone in the tribe would know who it belonged to. If it disappeared and then reappeared in someone else's hands, well . . . .
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