The Sun

C.S. Lewis once said that he believes in God as he believes in the sun for by it he is able to see everything else. All I would add to his insightful apologetic is not only is it by the sun that we see everything, but we see everything in its most scintallating splendor. In these few days of the beginning of spring this strengthening sun lightens the scilla and snowdrops and crocus and jasmine. And in the birds: the lightening highlights cardinals in their radiant red, blue jays gone from their winter gray to brilliant blue. And of course the question arises: is the sun originator of itself? Or could there possibly be someone other that lights that candle to which we should give thanks?

The Single Celled Animals

I've been reading about protozoa, the single-celled animals that occupy nearly every habitat on earth. The book, The Parade of Animals, was my mother's from high school and all the photographs are in black and white but the descriptions of the coloration and form of these single cells of life give you a sense that nothing was too small for the aesthetic sense of an artist that must indeed have a fine palette of pigments and an amazing comprehension that nothing can be too small for such delicate sculpture that Michelangelo would have to gaze at as the miraculous in miniature.

Mail In Voter Suppression?

Just had to turn off WGBH, Boston's classical music radio station. It's "public service" announcement presented the idea ("idea" is perhaps giving too much credit to the announcement) that mail in voting was now necessary so as not to suppress the black vote. Really? That it was racist (isn't this charge getting to be somewhat like the inflated Deutch mark where a wheelbarrow of them could not even buy a loaf of bread back in the day?) to try and curtail the millions of mail in ballots. Isn't this in a wierd way just the reverse? The radio's charge of racism reveals the Left's actual characterization of the African American as one so intimidated by all those white supremecists out there that he will stay home and not venture out in systemically racist America on election day. Am I made to believe the black person is really afraid to go to the voting booth? Doesn't one then have to ask why are the Norwegians and Chinese and Italians not affected by this great fear? And if intimidated to go to the voting booth why would anyone think there was less intimidation in going to the Post Office or the Mail Box? Something tells me that this is not the case but another agenda is involved...something like helping future elections along in a certain trajectory to the liking of the powers that be. I don't for one minute believe any blacks are cowering in their homes in fear of venturing out to the voting booth; just as I don't for one minute feel that Dr. Seuss offends the average black person in the pew. Just as I believe the books that will be the new replacement curriculum of the Teacher's Union--- "boys will be girls and girls will be boys" ---will be a suitable improvement in our Kindergartens. This instead should raise our eyebrows and perhaps inspire such zeal as to turn over a moneylender table or two..