the universe will not be controlled by the likes of us
the title is a brilliant phrase uttered on the intertubes by AdamSelene @ theoildrum.com. this space accumulates other such short, poetic, and found-elsewhere insights into the limits of human cognition. it is a project dedicated to Wes Jackson’s vision of an “ignorance-based worldview.” a brilliant phrase uttered by his friend Wendell Barry in a letter.Archive for June, 2009
waterfall of the gods
The Waterfall of the Gods
this is the waterfall where the law speaker of the alþing decided in 1000 AD that iceland would become a christian country. to demonstrate his seriousness, he threw his idols into the raging waters. a millenium later, iceland is no longer a christian country, which it probably really was for some while. time changes all things.
i like the idea of standing by a waterfall and deciding the fate of torrents of unborn people. this is a human act, one that may seem vain, or alternatively childlike. i’d like to find a waterfall and declare my allegiance to the Beloved, and to throw all my idols and fears and falsehoods into the water, and thus determine the shape of my childrens’ spiritual worldview, and that of their childrens’, and that of … (and all of them will add, i hope, their own waterfalls …) …
god speaks symphonically
Yesterday evening, this cloud and this tree were speaking.
recently said within lovely vortexes of human conversation, in which i had been given the grace to participate:
“What things have you to tell me today?” – Carrie
“Every detail matters. There is no meaningless anything.” – Link
“Nature is perfect. Nature is beyond design.” – Tony
“The earth is a big big,bright planet, and the sun is a big big bright star.” – Jasper
“Godness is very large.” – Camille
“If you build them, it will come.” – Adam
elements of my new life
the view from the House of Tony
the sun sets after a shared meal with the lovely neighbors
eating together, walking through fields splashed by wildflowers, running, reading, writing, building a cabin, sharing things, sharing ideas, sharing calm and edifying conversations, being open, being honest, being oneself, asking questions, listening to bluegrass (some of which live), thinking, watching plants grow, eating things grown by God and people (Murray/God’s collard greends sauteed with Tony/God’s wild garlic and corporate-industrial balsamic vinegar are delicious), thinking about and planning the New Paradigm for Everything: i love this life very much.
