Day 3717: Laughter and a hero.

   

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Why Is That Funny?

What’s laughter for? It’s one of those things, like breathing, that can be hard to see as strange and worth wondering about. Of course, that hasn’t stopped people from puzzling over the point of it for millennia. “The quest for the essence of humor,” Silvertown writes, “is older than the alchemists’ search for the philosopher’s stone.” Often we laugh without thinking. In fact, it’s the uncontrollable spontaneity of genuine laughter, sometimes triggered simply by others laughing, that we most enjoy. That it doesn’t have to result from our intent is, in itself, a clue to how ancient the behavior is. “If you are not in the mood for humor, nothing will make you laugh,” Silvertown writes. “On the other hand, if you are in a laughing crowd, you could find yourself laughing without even having heard the joke.” (One of the many jokes he quotes: “At what frequency does laughter become painful? 1 Gigglehurtz.”)

THE POWER OF LAUGHTER: Robin Dunbar has calculated that the average laughter group size—the number of people laughing at the same time as each other and paying attention to each other—is about three. This means, he writes, that laughter is “nearly three times more efficient than grooming in terms of the number of individuals in whom endorphins can be up-regulated during a given interaction.”

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An Aunt Vonda Story ...

One day Aunt Vonda was with me as I drove somewhere. At a traffic light, a pedestrian crossed, "dressed to the nines". A hat, purse, scarf, jewelry, layers of outfit, shoes etc. All a different color, with make-up to match. It wasn't Halloween. We looked at each other and smiled. Aunt Vonda said, "I bet she took a lot of time to create that."

One of God's best, I never heard her say a mean thing. Ever. One of my heroes.

 

 

 

 

 

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Just because ...

 

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Smiles for Sunday ...

 

   

    

 

  

   

 

 

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