Beauty

  

   Is a resting lion in awe of the Serengeti as the setting sun lights it afire? Does a whale marvel at the shifting blues and greens of the ocean? Is a soaring eagle filled with the majesty of the world below? Or are we the only species that experiences beauty? If we are, we don’t always and some of us never do. How can the breathtaking, seemingly unending variety of beauty that graces the thin blue skin of an insignificant world in an infinite universe be appreciated only some of the time by only one species that’s been around for only a flash in the two billion years that have witnessed millions come and go? If such an absurd idea can be even near true then perhaps the most beautiful thing on earth , the most beautiful thing in the universe is the appreciation of beauty itself.

Richard Talbot Hill
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Pyramid Scheme

Bill and Melinda gave me a buzz yesterday and asked if I wanted to hop on their jet (the small one) and spend some time with the new dictator of Egypt. Of course I said yes and I'll be God dammed if Bill and Hillary were on board. We had one hell of a time. Here is a picture of Giza at sunset.
Love and kisses.

Hillary was all worked up about the 529 Muslim Brotherhood defendants who had just been sentenced to death. She thought there was going to be some sort of grand Pharaonic re enactment. Every one buried in a pyramid or something. We had to let her down easy.

Just touched down in Cairo! More to come

PS Asked Melinda, instead of a low fly over if we could make a jaunt to the Pyramids in person. Hillary rolled her eyes
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Keep this under wraps but it looks like Bill, Bill, Melinda and Hillary are in Egypt to arrange to purchase a pyramid!

OK, I'm in Giza and it's sunset. A meeting was arranged with the president (general) and every one is at dinner. (I'm posting this from the men's room) Hillary brought up the pyramid scheme and was answered with a laugh. More laughter was followed by Bill's offer to increase the $5,000,000,000 annual military aid to ten. The other Bill's offer to turn the Nile delta into a GM plantation was met with guffaws. Then Melinda compared the crushing of the Egyptian Spring with the extermination of Occupy Wall Street and the laughing ceased. The president ordered another round of drinks and winked.

That wink? Egypt has just proclaimed Hamas a terrorist organization. Hillary just about peed her pants.

Then the president announced he had decreed any public protest would be considered an act of terrorism. I noticed a creeping stain on the upholstery under Hillary's, Bill, Bill and Melinda's derrieres. I reached for the ice bucket.