The political world sucks. We all know that.
There is, however, another world “out there”, and it’s different. It’s not ugly. It’s beautiful. And the critters are not to be feared. The emergent gun and fear-based “Stand Your Ground” idiocy is, ‘out there’, as worthless a concept as it is anywhere else, even in Florida. Fear? Nah. Fear is mostly a political thingee, a product of intellectual darkness. But yet, and even in spite of current human faux-reality, there still remains that other option . . . ‘out there’ . . . where, when the ‘eyes’ have it . . . well, the beat goes on and on and on.
Here’s the proof, thanks to my old friend of fifty-plus years, naturalist/photographer par excellence Denny Green, and his most recent photos of waterfowl — each one of which apparently finds the Gilbert (AZ) Water Ranch to be its home.
Note that amongst the eyes (‘ayes’??) there is not one . . . single . . . “nay” — ergo message apparent: subtract humans, subtract politics, subtract ugly . . . and ‘see’ then that ‘out there’ everything is, in a word, Beauty — which is, to each bird (and to the occasional poet), aka Truth.
Emily Dickinson summed it all up some 150 years ago when she wrote,
The Bird her punctual music brings
And lays it in its place —
Its place is in the Human Heart
And in the Heavenly Grace —
What respite from her thrilling toil
Did Beauty ever take —
And then came politics.
*Spit*
Ugly defined. But still and in spite, ‘out there’ remains unencumbered. Mostly. The Beauty of ‘out there’ — it’s everywhere, but especially it is . . .
Out There.
In. The. Eyes.
See above.
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