We as humans live in a universe of immense proportions, we are traveling through space at an enormous speed as we orbit around our star, as our star orbits the Milky Way galaxy, and as our galaxy is accelerating away from other galaxies in an ever-expanding universe.  Yes, more than a million miles an hour, in fact about 1.3M Mi/Hr.  Yet few of us think of ourselves as travelers, even though in the time you’ve read this you’ve traveled hundreds of thousands of miles.  So too has everything you see with you, so your motion relative to the walls or furniture is 0.  However, I’ll think about this next time I feel weary from business travel!

In our universe, and local existence, we have an amazing attraction to the apple.  Yes, think about it, apples have been around for millennia, and have been cultivated by humans, such that there are 7500 or more varieties of apples.   Not gonna try them all!  Furthermore, the apple has been a major element of our history, of the story of humankind.  Not only have we cultivated, and improved upon the apple, we can claim an apple helped Newton discover gravity, helped Eve seduce Adam, and all that happened thereafter.  Helped us with understanding, such as who is the apple of your eye?  And in a pie, has been associated with motherhood and all goodness.  Even our biggest city in the USA is the “Big Apple” … oh and I’m writing this on an Apple Computer!