Life has always fascinated me. People are very interesting to me. I have always wondered how we got to be so smart. Reading about the gathers and hunters gave me a little insight about how we came about. I never realized we all started out in Africa and as black people. Then lightened up according to where our ancestors ended up. It seems like such a simple time, but the life span was very short, maybe 30-35 years if you were lucky. There was danger in gathering your food, because how did they know if what they were eating wasn't poisonous. Trial and error I'm sure. We think of these people as primitive, but i think they were just as smart as people were today. They figured out the right stuff to eat, and where and how to live. All without anything to work with except the land in which they lived.
The story of Nisa was fascinating to me. Even though it is a story of a modern women living in the old ways, It give us an ideal about the thinking of someone who isn't surrounded in a lot of technology. She lives in the bush and is very satisfied with her life. As a women i enjoyed her views on her life and her marriage, her losses, and her lovers. She talks about the power to heal and to help her people. Sometimes I believe we are way to smart for our own good. We would find it hard to live in the bush how she did. The closet we come to that is to camp out at a lake or national park. We bring all the luxeries of home with us. You don't see people out hunting unless they have a special license, special clothing and only when and where the law says its OK. While I'm enjoying my life in the technical world we live in sometimes it would be great to step back a bit and enjoy the simple life. Even with the hard work.
