Today was a beautiful day ...
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Today's beauty merited three folders:
Manatees @ Play - A large number of manatees having a fun time frolicking in the water in Safety Harbor, includes baby manatees
Philippe Park - flowers, butterflies, wasps and pollinators encountered along the shoreline
Kapok Spoonbills - birds, birds, birds ... including roseate spoonbills, beautiful as always, and an entire duck courtship - mating sequence which was quite beautiful to observe
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I visited a bookstore today and spent some minutes reading magazines and books. There's too much to read, of course, thousands upon thousands of pages. If I devoted myself to reading I wouldn't have any time left to enjoy Nature.
A picture is worth a thousand words, as they say. Yet a moment spent outside in fellowship with Nature is worth a billion words. An entire day spent outside is worth a trillion words. An entire lifetime devoted to the Universe and Nature is worth more words than humankind will ever write from the beginning of time until its end.
My policy for reading is:
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept,
Line upon line, line upon line,
Here a little, there a little."
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue
He will speak to this people,
12 To whom He said, "This is the rest with which
You may cause the weary to rest,"
And, "This is the refreshing";
Yet they would not hear.
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I cannot read everything so I read a little here and a little there and that is often enough. The sunshine and blue sky beckon and the Universe is too beautiful to neglect.
Who has time for argument? Who has time for strife? Who has time for hatred and violence and warfare?
Peace is better than warfare and silence is better than speech and a healthy planet without a tool-making intelligent primate is better than a thoroughly depleted and trashed planet with a science & technology primate planning to reach for the stars.
I admire the lifestyle of the manatees and the dolphins and look upon humankind as the most tragic sort of tragedy this Universe has ever witnessed. Evidently humans are intelligent simply so that they can experience sorrows, misery and inflict these upon each other perpetually.
There's got to be a different way for humans to live ...
If only it was at all possible! Yet it is not. Humans and humankind lack free will and all thoughts otherwise are simply delusional and refuted by simple objective observation. Evolution has given humankind intrinsic self-destructive tendencies. Humans have fought against these tendencies since the beginning of time and have failed every single time.
Science & Technology was the last of these attempts and these have reached their limit and they have failed and ... even worse ... they have allowed humans to thoroughly trash the Earth in the process.
A healthy planet is a lot more valuable than Science & Technology. This is a lesson which humankind will learn the hard way.
David Mathews
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