Orts #800!
When an animal, a rabbit, say, beds down in a protecting fencerow, the weight and warmth of his curled body leaves a mirroring mark upon the ground. The grasses often appear to have been woven into a birdlike nest, and perhaps were indeed caught and pulled around by the delicate claws as he turned in a circle before subsiding into rest. This soft bowl in the grasses, this body-formed evidence of hare, has a name, an obsolete but beautiful word: meuse.... Each of us leaves evidence on the earth that in various ways bears our form.
-- Sally Mann, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived.
— Ann Patchett (1963- )
. . . because you are alive and not dead, because you have a human body and not some other kind of a body, because the world is a physical world and not an ethereal world, and because all of us together as people are the way we are, bad things are going to happen. It’s the most natural, the most normal, the most inevitable thing in the world. It is not a mistake, and it isn’t anyone’s fault.
— Norman Fischer, in an online essay, Life is Tough. Here Are Six Ways to Deal With It.
http://www.lionsroar.com/life-is-tough-six-ways-to-deal-with-it-march-2013
_________________________________________ The Winter Solstice this year is on Wednesday, Dec. 21, at approximately 5:44 AM. Celebrate Responsibly! _________________________________________
bonus link: more trombone madness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRSA48Njh7o&index=4&list=RDo9w4Pn-TgEE