Bach

Bach's "music sets in order what life cannot."
Otto Bettman

Lucy in the Sky...

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Beatles first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Who Knew?

Do you believe this?

"All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies, straight from the pit of Hell."
Representative Paul Broun, Chairman of the House Science Sub Committee on Investigations and Oversight  in a Speech, September 27, 2012

Lo Muthang and Sting

save the date

Donald Johanson, who is most well known for discovering "Lucy," is coming to TCU November 12-13, 2012. The TCU Honors Program, Anthropology Dept. Add Ran College and the Ronald E. Moore foundation are sponsoring the event. More details later. 

But Not Quite

But Not Quite

A little walk, perhaps,

The warm evening air,

A half moon punctuates

Our dim cobbled path.

Away from the city’s

Hardened rhythms,

The sad, handsome houses,

Trees darkly wave,

Stars blink encouragement.

Deep in the salt marsh,

The breeze volunteering,

Ravens circle, lazily,

The stony surface sending

Their melancholy cries.

Finally, she takes my hand,

Says, “On nights like this,

It is almost enough.”

Almost.

Laetoli

Laetoli

At Laetoli,
for seventy feet,
there are footprints,
preserved in volcanic ash,
three and a half million years old.
Down from the trees,
fully upright, pre-human,
a woman and a man
walking
          together
                     somewhere.
Who knows if she's with child,
what beast they just escaped, or
if they've lost their tribe or are rejoining it.
Tread carefully,
we never know,
how we'll be remembered,
as are they,
walking
          somewhere
                          together.