Appreciation

"Think only of the present. There is no past; there is no future... Tell me, my boy, what do you know?"

"I... I know my heart is beating, Sir. I know your hand is warm. I know the sun is setting, and the breeze is blowing in the trees. A train is rolling by in the distance. And the world is alive with insects ...and birds. And your heart is beating; I can feel it! And your breathing is long and strong. The whole world is breathing and living."

"Yes, boy. Now that you are aware of your connection to all living things you can never ignore it, can you?"

"It is all so beautiful, Sir. The setting sun, the grass, the stubble on your face, that bird nest in that tree, all of them are beautiful."

"Then let us appreciate them in silence as the night comes."
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[I wanted to make a gift for ~CunningTruckDriver and he pointed out to me that he has allowed Creative Commons on some beautiful sunset photos. So, here it is. The sunset filling the background here is "Bullpen Sunset IV" by (found here: [link] )

I had the idea recently to do what I'm calling, "Imago est brevis fabula." or "The image is a short story." When I get an idea for a fabula, it comes to me as one piece as a scene with dialog, so rather than adding word bubbles like comics, I'm going to put the text and pic side by side or one above the other like this.

I made the men with DAZ Studio, Freak4, and Apollo Maximus. I post-processed heavily with GIMP.]