Fiat Lux
A very wise man who sadly is no longer with us wrote these words just a few short weeks ago:
When an organism — a person, a society — gets really, deeply ill, gentle medicine may not be sufficient. The easy, comfortable path — well, maybe if you’d known a few years ago, but not now. Now you need the strong shit.
But the strong shit HURTS. You look around blearily and cannot comprehend why you’re enduring this. You make what you think are sane ultimatums: no more, unless we can get these side effects under control. No more unless the tests show it’s working. No more unless you can eat ice cream again. But this is not sane; this is despair creeping in.
Remember, then, why you are doing it — why you’re trying the strong shit. For some it is a fight. For some it is just…the thing to do. For me, for you, it is love: love of a person, of people, of a society. Hold on to that love. It does not make the pain, the shock, the outrage go away — but it provides a direction.
Hatred, despair, negativity, these have no direction — they go everywhere and nowhere and you end up in the same damn place.
Love flows always forwards. As a person, as a society, hold on to that love. Hold on to each other. Love each other. Always.
Today we learned of the passing of Steve Jobs. We’re not going to see his like again for a very long time.
Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They push the human race forward.
And while some may see them as the crazy ones,
we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough
to think they can change the world…
are the ones who do.
We had a few weeks of really nice weather and the cherry blossoms decided to pay us a visit.
Unfortunately another winter storm blew through a day or so after I shot these, and they’re not looking so pretty now.
