It's Incredulous.: I stood on the line in the sky

Apr 10, 2008

I stood on the line in the sky

Last night I took a bike ride out to a field near my house. When I got there is stood in the middle of the field and stared north. To my left was the setting sun, and to my right was darkness of the oncoming night. It was one of the most beautiful things that I have ever witnessed.

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The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless.

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the chemistry of the earth. Yet somehow we think we can grow, feeding on flowers and fireworks, without completing the cycle back to reality. Do you know the legend of Hercules and Antaeus, the giant wrestler, whose strength was incredible so long as he stood firmly on the earth? But when he was held, rootless, in midair, by Hercules, he perished easily. If there isn't something in that legend for us today, in this city, in our time, then i am completely insane.