Beauty

There is beauty yet. The highest expression of our humanity is not in technology, aggression, war, clever business practice or law, but in beauty.

 Science, that great interferer, has a great lesson to learn in leaving things alone. We may study the way birds fly and make endless documentaries about them, even attach mini cameras to them for our tele-visual, voyeuristic pleasure, but the delight and beauty of flying cannot be known that way. We will miss it every time. 

What value would it be to explain a sunset? Would the explanation cause my flesh to tingle with the beauty of it? Some things you just have to be there for. 

© 2000 Keith Lindsay-Cameron. All rights reserved.