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superb, words and images, thank you tom 🙂
Thank you much! And let’s all go beyond all those superb words and (mental) images…
Tom
ha ha … the words can take us there … at least i just drift off from them like from a diving board ..
That’s just it! We think (with words) that the words can take us there; but they really cannot. Words are merely symbolic representations (that too many of us are satisfied as being). If orangutans go extinct — and that may very well happen if we don’t change things for the better — all the endless words, stories, and pictures (about them) will not (and cannot ever) replace the reality of their being, beauty, magic, and splendor.
(Please… I’m not suggesting that you wouldn’t mind that orangutans went extinct!)