Loss
Loss is nothing else but change,
and change is Nature’s delight.
Attributed to Marcus Aurelius (c. 170)
Stake nets like these no longer dot the Solway coast. A way of life is lost along with the salmon which are now few. The setting sun places human loss in the wider natural order where
change
A page on flux.
is a constant, for constancy is only found in the constructs and
models
On the Comparator model of minds
of our minds. What minds
prize
A haiku by Issa. Why is there loss?
passes as surely as the sun sets. Yet the beauty of the sunset seems
bound up
On the bond there seems to be between nature, time and beauty.
with that loss. Its hard to imagine what we could value if there was no loss, and every loss reveals the
wonder
A page on wonder.
of the new.
Marcus Aurelius was joint Roman Emperor from 161 to 180, he left a set of notes which have come to be known as ‘Meditations’. I have not yet found the above quote. These 12 books contain many aphorisms on diverse matters.
These nets were near Creetown, at the head of Wigtown Bay in southern Scotland.
Above hovering on blue introduces a link: click to go, move away to stay.
Saturday 25th August 2018
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