Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

...because some of it is pretty and some of it is not.

Saturday, September 2, 2017

Sparks

If there were no dark side of the Moon, we would have had to invent one, or something less obscure.  Perhaps we might have broadly legalized rooster fighting.  More war is always an option.
For a time, we were guided by the Moon.  We capered around the fire and scooped sparks into the night, convinced the sparks were the seeds of stars.
When darkness dissolved the Moon, we threw more sparks.
When clouds crossed, we chanted and blamed our children for some unknown transgression.
When the Moon failed us, we invented civilization.

--Mitchell Hegman

2 comments:

  1. It begs to be asked: Are we more civilized now than we were back in the days of the proverbial club-wielding stone-age men who dragged women to caves by their hair?

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  2. A valid question. Above my pay grade for that determination.

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