Some thought on Winter '09

Haiku

Truth lies beneath the snow

hibernating ‘til the thaw

sets free long held dreams

There were no atoms yet, let alone stars or galaxies: All was empty. We tend to think of it as a serene, hushed nothingness, an insubstantial, uneventful void, but it was in fact seething with all the pent-up energy of the primordial explosion.

Trinh Xuan Thuan, The Birth of the Universe: The Big Bang and After

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. An d if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Martha Graham