The Beaglesword this week was “reinvent.”
I have no idea what next week's word will be.
Do you remember looking at the tiny speck
in the rabbit hole photograph 2 weeks ago,
followed by the comments of Carl Sagan?
“We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and,
if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam. The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become
the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot”
Keep that quote in mind as you click the link below
and get ready for a revealing, 90-second tour of 5,000 years.
