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From my youth up I never liked the city.
I never forgot the mountains where I was born.
The world caught me and harnessed me
And drove me through dust, thirty years away from home.
Migratory birds return to the same tree.
Fish find their way back to the pools where they were hatched.
I have been over the whole country,
And I have come back at last to the garden of my childhood.
My farm is only ten acres.
The farm house has eight or nine rooms.
Elms and willows shade the back garden.
Peach trees stand by the front door.
The village is out of sight.
You can hear dogs bark in the alleys,
And cocks crow in the mulberry trees.
When you come through the gate into the court
You will find no dust or mess.
Peace and quiet live in every room.
I am content to stay here the rest of my life.
At last I have found myself.
— Tao Yuan Ming (Tao Qian) Chinese, 365-427
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Really appreciated the eagle soaring through the alps video. I have been nearly transfixed on more than one occasion watching birds riding the thermals. Something pure and honest witnessing an animal simply doing what it’s designed to do. Beauty is ubiquitous, yet seemingly it is only the vile and crude that is granted attention.
“Beauty is ubiquitous, yet seemingly it is only the vile and crude that is granted attention.”
Just so and I am always mystified by this era’s fascination for the vile.
The eagle was very cool indeed.
Watching the second video (and wondering why the girl was yelling?), I was reminded that the earliest use of stop-motion photography was to figure out what horses do with their feet when they run.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge#Stanford_and_horse_gaits
The eagle video is wonderful, but methinks the eagle sees and perceives far more than do we with our particular vision and perception, “riding” on the eagle’s back as it were. Now if we were able to “merge” with the eagle a la Carlos Castaneda and the crow…
+10 for that eagle video, really cool!