For perhaps a thousandth of a memorable second I understood that the moment the Creator cleaved matter from primordial energy, the die was cast for things being the way they are, frogs and people. I cannot recall the path my mind took from the moment of that thought, but I can say that leading directly from it suddenly there arose a flash of insight. Having that insight so vividly placed before me, and remembering some times in my own past when I could have used a bit of divine intervention, I thought: "Obviously the Creator has made us tadpoles and humans this way, but why wouldn't it have been just as easy to formulate us so that neither tadpoles nor humans are predisposed to commit the excesses and errors that get us into these awful situations? Why build a frog whose vast majority of offspring must die before reaching adulthood, and why build humans programmed for the arrogance and aggression that's screwing up our world right now?" Standing in the rain with all my conflicting feelings, this question occurred to me: Am I not to my tadpoles in their dishpan approximately what the Creator is to us humans on Planet Earth? I watched as about half my tadpoles went over the edge. Even if all the tadpoles somehow made it to adult frogdom, the local ecology could never support so many frogs. I let this happen because of my realization that there were just too many tadpoles there. I stood there in the downpour watching tadpoles flow over the edge to certain death on the ground below. During last Sunday's rain the dishpan overflowed. The dishpan lies beneath an awning from which water dribbles into it. During a late-afternoon rain on July 31, frogs left eggs in the dishpan in which I wash next to my trailer door, and each week since then I've reported on the tadpoles' development.Ībout an hour after I issued last Sunday's Newsletter a storm came up and simplified the dishpan's overpopulation problem.
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