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| Tollund Man – Wikimedia Commons |
Our lives are the brief flashes of an unseen future to long-dead ancestors, sparks of flame that we now kindle in our children as our own embers burn ever lower.
—First posted (without links) on Facebook, 3/25/13
Occasional observations, rants, and reviews by an engineer, inventor, retired patent agent, recovering fundamentalist, amateur evolutionist, and now manager of a little publishing company. And no doubt more stuff to come.
Monday, March 25, 2013
Brief Flashes of an Unseen Future
This man died on the Jutland Peninsula in what is now Denmark, sometime around 300 B.C., plus or minus 80 years. His head lay preserved in a peat bog for over two thousand years.
Our lives are the brief flashes of an unseen future to long-dead ancestors, sparks of flame that we now kindle in our children as our own embers burn ever lower.
Our lives are the brief flashes of an unseen future to long-dead ancestors, sparks of flame that we now kindle in our children as our own embers burn ever lower.