And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, June 24, 2023
Magdalena Bay, oil on canvas, c. 1841 by François-Auguste Biard
I count three snow covered, a fourth ready to go, a fifth in the shadow of the rock. The horror of being the last to go, hope against hope that somehow rescue would come in time, but knowing its a futile imagination. Yet the essence of humanity lies in hope. To let go is to die, to become nothing. To linger is to prolong the suffering. Time spent uttering silent, furtive goodbyes. Carousing through the memories of your life.
Two dead bodies front and center?
ReplyDeleteWell, that's not Magdalena Bay on Baja, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteI count three snow covered, a fourth ready to go, a fifth in the shadow of the rock. The horror of being the last to go, hope against hope that somehow rescue would come in time, but knowing its a futile imagination. Yet the essence of humanity lies in hope. To let go is to die, to become nothing. To linger is to prolong the suffering. Time spent uttering silent, furtive goodbyes. Carousing through the memories of your life.
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