"Around half of the human genome is made up of millions of DNA sequences that can be traced back to long-dead viruses or similar ‘jumping genes’, known collectively as transposable elements or transposons."
I think of Jeff Goldblum in "The Fly." There is something so primally creepy about the idea of a foreign viral code, making something new of a Human Body. Maybe primally creepy because it's true. What we are today has been shaped by viral invasions over millions of years. We become beings, a bit strange, and oddly funny too. "What is this strange thing I'm becoming?"
On my lips this morning: "I was sick, but now I will be well." I'm pretty sure you can't will yourself to wellness, but maybe that kind of thinking is a good mind-set to have in your kit-bag. I am willing a future that is not here yet. I guess that's another way saying I am harboring a nasty virus and a primal hope. We can go many ways in this primal game.
