
I’ve always been quite taken with the opening of the movie Contact. First, there’s a
swirly-blue-white-and-green view of Earth, then the camera slowly widens to
show other planets, the whole galaxy, then countless...

A new television program called Resurrection premiered the
other night. I am rarely, if ever, enticed to start watching something new but
this commercial drew me in and so, I set the DVR. The premise of the show is
that people...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka