Walls of Change

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This is a Tomato seedling of some heirloom variety (I meant to label all of the seeds from the 10 different varieties I'm growing, but they got messed up in the mix so now I will have a grab-bag tomato garden.) This guy, in his rush to reach the sky in a sun-fueled blitz, decided to bring a piece of soil with him. No doubt it will be discarded when the leaves split. 

While watching him, I wondered where the line is where things are no longer a chain of chemical events and when they begin to be life.  Or if my assumption of a division at all is false and it's all just a continuous movement. It all just is. In any event, it's living enough for me, I named him Tom.

For some reason the image uploader is broken. Boo Blogspot. I will try to finish this later -