Usually my Easy Sunday posts show something pleasant and un-serious.
It isn't all politics, money, and conflict.
Below is a brief video of a young South American sloth being re-united with its mother. Sloths look like primates--monkeys or apes--but they aren't cousins at all. They are closely related to armadillos and anteaters, which look nothing like sloths. The sloth branch of that family evolved to live in trees and therefore got the attributes of tree dwellers: Long arms and legs, eyes in front, grasping hands. There is a message in that parallel development. We look like we do because that appears to be the best way to survive living in and around trees.
I saw this sloth up close in Brazil. The boy showed off his pet to me. It moved in slow motion, about 1/4 time. It slowly turned its head toward me to check me out. I imagined it to be utterly serene. And sleepy. They go in and out of naps, sleeping about 15 hours a day. It reminded me of a cuddly ET, from the 1982 movie.
Here is the 37 second video.
Tomorrow it is back to the usual storm and strife. I will publish a graph comparing the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank overlayed against of what happened following the Lehman Brothers failure. It is history, not fate or a prediction. But still.
I had a pet sloth in Colombia. It just hung on a tree limb that we had mounted on the wall. One day we woke up to find it facing the other way. A message I learned from that sloth and my two years in a tiny jungle town: The simple life can be good.
Thanks for the sloth video. I had a pet armadillo named Amy when I was 12 years old. I didn't realize that she had sloth cousins 😳