Annual Renewal
While walking through the parking lot to my car this afternoon, I was admiring the beautifully blooming tree (pear, I think) and then I noticed it's neighbor was still essentially barren, providing a distinct contrast between the winter & spring seasons. There are even some stubbornly clinging fall leaves in there if you look closely. I though this fit the weekly theme perfectly.
52 week project - week 16 theme - "Life / Death ~ Entropy / Renewal" described as "One of the profound oddities of our universe is how different it looks up close. From the outside, we can't help but know that our tiny lives and all that surround them are bound by immutable laws of entropic decline. As the great machinery of our existence ticks ever onward, we are each of us, as Shakespeare observed, simply "passing through nature to eternity."
And yet caught as we are in our inexorable march towards death, this existential decay, we are surrounded by renewal and rebirth. We are born and we die within a spiral of futility, and yet we are titans of creativity and optimism. We erect great monuments knowing they will one day crumble to dust and yet we do not despair. We grow. We plan. And we plunge ever onward as a monument to our own existence."
Annual Renewal
While walking through the parking lot to my car this afternoon, I was admiring the beautifully blooming tree (pear, I think) and then I noticed it's neighbor was still essentially barren, providing a distinct contrast between the winter & spring seasons. There are even some stubbornly clinging fall leaves in there if you look closely. I though this fit the weekly theme perfectly.
52 week project - week 16 theme - "Life / Death ~ Entropy / Renewal" described as "One of the profound oddities of our universe is how different it looks up close. From the outside, we can't help but know that our tiny lives and all that surround them are bound by immutable laws of entropic decline. As the great machinery of our existence ticks ever onward, we are each of us, as Shakespeare observed, simply "passing through nature to eternity."
And yet caught as we are in our inexorable march towards death, this existential decay, we are surrounded by renewal and rebirth. We are born and we die within a spiral of futility, and yet we are titans of creativity and optimism. We erect great monuments knowing they will one day crumble to dust and yet we do not despair. We grow. We plan. And we plunge ever onward as a monument to our own existence."