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 wind
i saw ravens playing
in Iceland, the sun always seems to be in the wrong place. remember the last time you saw a solar eclipse, and everywhere you looked, not just at the sun and the moon, but the whole earth, the light seemed utterly strange, but beautiful? that’s how it seems to me every day here, when the sun is out. especially this past sunday. it was a stark blue, twilight day, and very windy. i went to the edge of steep slope that overlooks the airport, in the hopes filming a crosswind landing. what i didn’t know is that this is what i would see instead (if the embedded video doesn’t work below, here’s the youtube link).
