Sunday, August 06, 2006
S p a c e__A n d__N o w
We have looked through our telescopes and seen the fate and destruction of our Universe. We have looked upon the chaotic view of what lies beyond. We have taken the anxiety of a far-future and a Space that lies far beyond our own and is indifferent to us, and translated that into our present.
But what we have is Now.
And Now, the planets are sweeping out equal distances in equal times.
The Earth, by all sense, is not moving.
The mighty Sun is rising in the East and setting in the West.
The Moon is changing shape, from Virgin to Crone and back again.
There are many many infinities between us and dissolution.
All things locally for our Solar System (about what more should we care?) have manifested themselves Rationally and in an Ordered State.
We live on an oblate sphere (Beautiful!) that is an infinitude with a boundary, just like the field to the ant, and are a part of a Nature that supplies not only the Good, but the Bad, so Liberal She is to us!
In this Realization, we should be Charitable. And Forgiving.
For we do not 'own' or 'forfeit', for All is freely given and freely taken away!
But not 'All'.
We always at least have the essential.
A little air to breathe.
A little water to drink.
A roof over our heads.
The shirt on our backs.
'But think of the children, and what will they have.'
I am.
We have looked through our telescopes and seen the fate and destruction of our Universe. We have looked upon the chaotic view of what lies beyond. We have taken the anxiety of a far-future and a Space that lies far beyond our own and is indifferent to us, and translated that into our present.
But what we have is Now.
And Now, the planets are sweeping out equal distances in equal times.
The Earth, by all sense, is not moving.
The mighty Sun is rising in the East and setting in the West.
The Moon is changing shape, from Virgin to Crone and back again.
There are many many infinities between us and dissolution.
All things locally for our Solar System (about what more should we care?) have manifested themselves Rationally and in an Ordered State.
We live on an oblate sphere (Beautiful!) that is an infinitude with a boundary, just like the field to the ant, and are a part of a Nature that supplies not only the Good, but the Bad, so Liberal She is to us!
In this Realization, we should be Charitable. And Forgiving.
For we do not 'own' or 'forfeit', for All is freely given and freely taken away!
But not 'All'.
We always at least have the essential.
A little air to breathe.
A little water to drink.
A roof over our heads.
The shirt on our backs.
'But think of the children, and what will they have.'
I am.
