“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
― G.K. Chesterton

"This is our camp, our moving city; each day we set the show up: jugglers calm amid currents, riding the world, joggled but slightly as in a howdah, on the grey wrinkled earth we ride as on elephant's head."
-Robert Lax, Circus of the Sun

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I remember the day I took this shot! I was on a photophari with my Dad...such a fond memory.

These birds are riding on the back of a bison...the words of Robert Lax come to mind! Are we all not riding on something...starting with a spinning earth.
-rc

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It's raining today but it didn't stop me from snapping this shot!

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Of course it is possible to live a life without God, just as it is possible to live a life without humor, or music, or love; and one can no more prove that God exists than one can prove these other things exist to those who lack a sense of humor, or to whom Schubert is mere noise, or love a figment of the romantic imagination.
-A Letter in the Scroll Understanding
Our Jewish Identity
and Exploring the Legacy
of the World’s Oldest Religion Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

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Wherever we experience the pure call of the moment, whenever we are confronted with stark realty, we tremble. We are used to living on the everyday air of compromise and muddling through, and suddenly we are challenged to breathe pure oxygen and we are afraid we are going to burn up. That is why Rilke says, “Every angel is frightening.” And yet what could be more beautiful than an angel? Supreme beauty is not pretty. It’s the beauty of an electric storm: It thrills us, and it frightens us. “Beauty,” Rilke tells us, “is but the beginning of terror which we can just barely sustain, and we admire it so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us.”
Brother David Steidl-Rast, Music of Silence

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