Life is typical, I guess. My hopes of starting a business have pretty well gone down the drain. My family has 60 acres in Damon, Tx, and 80 acres in Weimar, Tx, both within 1.5 hrs of Houston.   60% of available acreage in Damon is Houston Black Clay, one of the most fertile in the U.S. with the right management practices.   The rest, around 20%, ( Read more... )

Tree...

In Timeless Dimension,
energy springs up from earth,
pulling matter like fountain in a well,
energy building upon itself,
using its trunk to support limbs,
using its function to build more functions,
to far reach, to grow,
to better survive,
energy, to place more progeny into the future

Energy, organized into form;
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My voice proclaimsHow exquisitely the individual Mind(And the progressive powers perhaps no lessOf the whole species) to the external WorldIs fitted:--and how exquisitely, too,Theme this but little heard of among Men,The external World is fitted to the Mind . . .
-William Wordsworth, 1814
I wonder: what was his reasoning?  Don't we now, most of us, ( Read more... )

Well I heard there was a secret chord ( Read more... )

Feet set into the ground

Sun having faded somewhere over the hills

Cool grey winds, encircling and shapeless, spiraling higher into Zero of the atmosphere

Night shades drawing. Cerulean blue - blue - black-blue - black
Celestial spheres turn - turning, turning, like silent records, time after decade after century, after time

Deep fading ( Read more... )

The truth of eternity cannot be revealed until eternity itself is revealed in time.

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Voltaire's Candide.

Leibniz: "That man's soul is tested in the freedom to choose between good and evil and is perfected by suffering..."  His traditional argument was that evil is necessary for our free will, as we must be able to have choice -- without the freedom to choose between good and evil we have no free will.

The fictional character ( Read more... )