Name selection

The first full draft of the book has been completed.  What a relief to be to this point.  I finished the story in time for Christmas so I could deliver a few copies of the work to my family.  They knew I was working on it and they thought I was crazy.  Now at least they have evidence.

Now for some explanation on the selection for the name of this blog.

As I considered one day how to put the jumbled pile of thoughts that were roaming in my head down for someone to utilize (hopefully) to their benefit, I began to think of an analogy that I could use.  My mind returned to a plant physiology course I had in college where I first became familiar with cascading thermodynamics.

Now, I don't even know if that is a technical term, but it has always been intriguing to me.  The point being that energy starts high and as it does work, some becomes productive, some turns to heat and eventually it is all utilized.  In plants, that activity begins with the sun's rays splitting water through photosynthesis.  The resultant hydrogen ions drive the power turbines of the plant as they try to re-combine with oxygen in an effort to return to stable water molecules.

To extrapolate that to human experience (and my observations in the world of employment) I began to consider thermodynamics and the tendency of energy to equalize or cascade to lower-energy planes where the work-producing capacity is reduced.  The terminology for energy equalization - made popular by the second law of thermodynamics, is entropy.

Entropy describes the productive energy in a system and when everything is equal in a system and productive energy has dissipated, entropy is at its peak.  The question, then, is...

How do we maintain low entropy in our lives - and keep productive work flowing??