Ahh yes. We have all experienced the stinging sensation of being bitten by a march fly as the nasty sucker tries to draw blood from our precious life supply, haven’t we?
Steve: “Ow! What was that? I think I just got bitten by something.”
Me: “It was a march fly.”
Steve: “Isn’t it February?”
We have lost our capacity to see not only the reality of the world about us but even of what was to have been the main purpose of our investigation to start with–the reality of our own presence within the world. If man thinks and acts as if God does not exist and is not present in all things, he thinks and acts a lie; and the result of this is that he reduces his own life to a falsity, which is the same thing as unreality.
This from The Eclipse of Man and Nature: An Enquiry into the Origins and Consequences of Modern Science by Philip Sherrard. Sections from Chapter 4. Read the rest of this entry ?
I think flowers exist for very little reason other than to look beautiful…
From my very talented friend, MJR (more to come)
Natalie Angier’s short appreciation of water, which, before you scoff, is a pretty amazing substance despite its ubiquity. “Pulled together by hydrogen bonds, water molecules become mature and stable, able to absorb huge amounts of energy before pulling a radical phase shift and changing from ice to liquid or liquid to gas. As a result, water has surprisingly high boiling and freezing points, and a strikingly generous gap Read the rest of this entry ?
