Margaret and I took a walk around the area where we live, and I got several pictures; and the only image which stunned me was of what seemed to me to be an industrial installation on 4th street.  There was a suggestion of power in the collection of pipes and valves and wheels for control. Later in the day I got another sunset picture from our balcony.  Both pictures are colorful.  Later I read something by Sean O’Casey which seemed appropriate.

“Even here, even now, when the sun had set and the evening star was chastely touching the bosom of the night, there were things to say, things to do.  A drink first!  What would he drink to— the past, the present, the future?  To all of them?  He would drink to the life that embraced the three of them!  Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down, and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be.  Hurrah!”

                                                                                    

                                                 —Sean O’Casey