Refections at the United Nations

Do we live on a beautiful spherical earth in a Newtonian solar system, where human society advances through time or a flat cracked plane where civilization is in decline? The truth is, the answer has much to do with one's living faith.

The nihilist, the terrorist & anarchist inhabit the same planet as the humanist, atheist, agnostic & all people of faith. Ultimately whether civilization progress in part is a consequence of how one's own living faith grows and is shared in one's family & community.

Avenues of exploration

The superstructures of the L have been intense avenues of exploration for me since I discovered them as a boy. Hanging on to dangling chains in between subway cars escaping from suburbia, the L presented vistas of the unknown vastness & mystery of the inner city.

bifurcations

rats' feet over broken glass

Afrikanspirit

Heart of God

O great heart of God,
Once vague and lost to me,
Why do I throb with your throb to-night,
In this land, eternity?

O little heart of God,
Sweet intruding stranger,
You are laughing in my human breast,
A Christ-child in a manger.

Heart, dear heart of God,
Beside you now I kneel,
Strong heart of faith. O heart not mine,
Where God has set His seal.

Wild thundering heart of God
Out of my doubt I come,
And my foolish feet with prophets' feet,
March with the prophets' drum.

By Vachel Lindsay