In the Beginning God created and said, this is good! Then God rested. (Genesis 1-2)

Any foolish [person] can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.” —Arthur Schopenhauer

Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God's sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you! —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“The whole difference between construction and creation is … a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.” —Charles Dickens

“The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.” —Gene Roddenberry

(This composition incorporates one of my sculptures (the Face)
And multiple pictures from my file. I’m scheduled to meet
With the heart surgeons today. God’s grace has been fierce
Keeping me going as I anticipate heart valve repair.