Come walk with me, fellow traveler

Pete and Christina in the yard, August 2007


Henry Beston writes:

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mythical concept of animals... We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they moved finished and complete, gifted with the extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.

All that surrounds us...

View from the back of our barn in Northern Liberties, April 2007.

A couple of quotes today from everyone's favorite French emperor (that would be Napoleon):

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

We live and die in the midst of marvels.

And yet, there is always more to say...

(Belgian draft horse at the Kentucky Horse Park, January 2008, photo by Christina Hansen)

A couple of quotes for today:

"This curious world which we inhabit is more wonderful than it is convenient, more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used."
(Henry David Thoreau, commencement address, Harvard University, 1837)

"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it." (James A. Baldwin)


(Spanish Norman at the Kentucky Horse Park, August 2004, photo by Christina Hansen)