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The Culture

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In biology " culture " refers to the production of microorganisms in a controlled environment.  In order to multiply a bacteria or other microorganism, one needs to plant the organism in a substance called agar.  Agar is a gelatinous medium that provides nutrients for growth.  Usually when growing a cell culture, the agar plate needs to be incubated at a constant temperature for a certain amount of time.  Growing microorganisms is similar to growing plants.  Microorganisms also play a very specialized and important role in plant growth.  The etymology of the word " culture " goes back to just that: cultivation or rearing of a crop.  Culture very definitively means to promote growth...to tend, guard, till, and cultivate. The meaning of culture as we know it is actually metaphorical, or figurative.   Culture, in the figurative sense, is meant to nurture, grow, tend to, care for, and cultivate a people. When we cultivate or promote the growth of...
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The Art of the Matter

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There are three letters when put together make a little word that may spark more debate than perhaps any other word.  ART.  Art has been debated for centuries and is a world full of endless opinion and incessant arguing.  What is Art?  It could mean different things to different people.  According to AI, " art is the conscious use of skill, imagination, and creativity to produce works—ranging from painting and sculpture to music and literature—that evoke emotion, convey ideas, or explore aesthetic beauty. It serves as a form of human expression and communication, often transcending language to create meaning and shared experiences. "  I think that about covers it! Oscar Wilde was a proponent of the aesthetic art movement.  This movement set out to free art from the responsibility of having a moral message.  This movement coined the phrase, " art for art's sake ".  They believed that art was for beauty alone and that it had no other purpose, t...
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Lessons From the Grass

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  A while back, I wrote a post titled The Grass is Always Greener.  It was my thoughts about motherhood while having one foot in the career world and one in the stay-at-home mom world. Not just the stay-at-home mom world, but the particular world in Utah, which I think is a little different.  The saying "the grass is always greener on the other side " is a euphemism for maybe not being happy with one's life, or that people always want what they don't have!  It kind of formulates this "I'll be happy when, or if...... " line of thinking. It also demonstrates pure irony because one might say "the grass is greener on the other side " when they know that it actually isn't.   I've mostly tried to take an " I'll be happy anyway " kind of attitude.  I don't need what I don't have, but I do think God gave me both the opportunity to stay at home, and to work, and why?  For what?  Maybe some women need both, and some don'...
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The Divine Feminine

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  Let's talk about feminism........I have a strong distaste for it!  It's a plague, end of story!  Okay, I'm exaggerating a little, but there is truth in my feelings.  First of all, I'm all for supporting women and I'm all for women having rights, okay!  I'm not someone who believes women are only here to have babies and be a companion to a man.  I understand why women fought for many of the rights we enjoy today and I'm grateful for that.  I think what many women of the past were really fighting for was to be seen as equal human beings with value to all of society.  That we are more than just a body, a pretty face, or some kind of trophy you bring out to show high society.  Our value did not and does not just exist as a physical feature.  Feminism lost me when it became about women being able to choose any life they wanted....except for a mom and a wife.  You can choose to be whatever you want, but as soon as a woman chooses mother...
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