falling_apartness birdmad we are told that the universe tends toward entropy. ancient monuments fall to ruin bodies age clothes wear out and even the mountains themselves erode. time is a face on the water, and like water on stone, time has its way with everything 050119 ... . . 050123 ... oblivion exercises in futility. but life is persistent..and everything in nature knows its exact niche to fill, and how they will fill it, and will continue to do so until their last breath. they don't really care that their lives are falling apart as we speak; as are their species; as is their universe. what, so what..where am I going with this? 050123 what's it to you? who go blather from