Another Breath: jun26 010

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Originally uploaded by Skippy Flickr.

This picture is about 5 minutes after the other one. A minute later the heron dropped down to the pond behind the lattice and ate all the fish.

Devotion, Inspiration, and "The Noonday Brightness of Human Genius"

"... Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins--all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built."

- Bertrand Russell, A Free Man's Worship

Monday, June 26, 2006

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