As an incurable romantic, I've searched the World Wide Web for years to learn more about exotic sorts of people, places, and cultures. I find we are all human, with a common core. However, there are mysterious and beautiful wonders to learn. Here are some "visions" from the WWW.
Here's a photo from Mongolia.
The steppes extend in the
background. Mongolians learn
to ride horses well even as
small children. What more
wonderful way to court your
sweetheart?
The Trapezium is a group of four hot young stars at the center of this picture. In the background are the swirling gas clouds of the Great Orion Nebula. The Orion Nebula is a intense center of new star production, since its rich fields of gas, plus the intense radiation of tightly packed stars, provide ideal conditions for birth of new stars. All the key elements of life, including carbon and oxygen, were synthesized in the heart of stars. The newborn universe had nothing but hydrogen and helium.
Has life because the
elements needed for
life were brewed in
the hearts of the stars.
This exotic-looking
young woman has
a molecular chem-
istry based on carbon
synthesized in the birth
and death of stars.
Flesh is fire in this wilderness of fire
Which is our dwelling."
--Sidney Keyes
"The spaces of the body
are suddenly limitless, and riding flesh
shapes constellations over the golden breast,
confusion of scents and illuminated touch--
monster touch, the throat printed with brightness,
wide outlined gesture where the bodies ride.
Bells and the spirit flashing. The religious bells
bronze under the sunlight like beasts ringing,
bronze in the closed air, the memory of walls,
great sensual shoulders in the web of time."
-- Muriel Rukeyser
Life and the spirit have cosmic implications--