Life of Wry

About this picture: it was shot a couple days ago at Dillon Beach.  According to my photo-a-day rules, I can still use the photo, even though it wasn’t shot on February 12.  Because, you know, they’re my rules.  And I really like the picture and couldn’t find a way to use it on the 10th when I did shoot it,  so… I’m using it now.  And that’s ok.

Also, it’s unrelated to the content, below.  That is also ok, according to my rules.  It’s a very lucky capture and some pretty colors and patterns, and I wanted to share it. That’s all.

Also wanted to share these:

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.

-Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

-Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)

About these quotes:  I didn’t write any of this (obviously), even though this is a writing blog. In my photo-a-day-write-something-everyday blog where I’m supposed to be exploring and experimenting with my own writing, I didn’t write anything, and instead shared something someone else wrote, and that, too, is ok.  I like both of these quotes very much.. both move me, and both make me think.

And… the two quotes are unrelated,  not only to the picture, but to each other.  Hell, Carl and Mahatma didn’t even know one another, unless they met when Mahatma was a very old man, and Carl little more than a toddler, which I doubt.   But they are both incredible thinkers and good, good people.  So they may likely have enjoyed one another.  But, again, I like what comes up for me in thinking about what they each said.  They both offer up a sort of cautionary tale, which is often the kind of thing that speaks to me.  (That could be another post, in itself.) So I really just wanted to share them.

Anyway, I veered a lot today, it’s all a bit untidy, but, again, no rules broken.  Take what you like, move on.