Quote of the Week

"So hard at best is the lot of man, and so great is the beauty he can apprehend, that only a religious conception of things can take in the extremes and meet the case. Our lifetimes have seen the opening of abysses before which the mind quails. But it seems to me there are a few things everyone can humbly try to hold onto: love and mercy (and humor) in day-to-day living; the quest for exact truth in language and affairs of the intellect; self-recollection or prayer; and the peace, the composed energy of art,"
-poet Robert Fitzgerald


-I've tried to post more photos, but blogger is being difficult. Or maybe it's the fact that its noon here and America is finally waking up for the day, checking the market in New York, tuning into YouTube in suburbia, and slowing down my connection. I don't know if there's any correlation, but internet is always faster here when the U.S. is sleeping.