Letter to Josie

Richard Thompson sends a letter to his granddaughter

Written reflections to Josie | Photo: Chris-Håvard Berge / flickr CC

Josie, our granddaughter, is in her second year at Manchester University, really enjoying her course in Biology with an option in Philosophy. In her first year I sent an email to her about the nature of incessant change in life and the huge whirl of energies influencing us. I asked: ‘Why is there so much change?’ She replied one minute later with: ‘That’s easy! Random mutation to do with DNA.’ That shut me up… until now!

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