Seedy

I was thinking about seeds this morning on the bus. Seeds are pretty neat because they have all the parts inside them that are necessary to make trees and grass and stuff. When you think about it, seeds also have the 'seed producing' parts of whatever plant they are going to be, right? Then those seed producing parts might not have seeds in them, but they have the means to produce more seeds. What are those parts? Seems to me like that part is almost like magic or something. I mean, there are the parts of a seed that will tell a tree how to make leaves and a part of the seed that tells the tree how to make bark, but the part that tells a tree how to make seeds...that's friggin' cool. Making seeds has got to be a total bitch because you gotta put all the blueprints for making trees...and how to make more seeds again...and then squeeze them all into a tiny little seed. When you think about it even more, the whole shebang is just an assemblage of atoms and it's pretty cool that nature can put together the right atoms in the right configuration to make a self-replicating organism. I wish I could configure atoms to make stuff do that. I'm pretty good with legos, so I've got that going for me, which is nice.