Last seen: 19 months ago
"FM" is a
52 year old guy from
Phoenix,
Arizona,
USA
Only with faith in Jesus Christ dare we step into
the dangerous excitement of life.
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Bridges and trails are a metaphor for the human experience...
They carry us across seemingly impossible terrain and bring worlds together. Trails, like the continuum of our lives, carry us to and through the great diversity of the earth. Old growth forest, sub-alpine meadow, storm-lashed shore; all linked by trails that rest on the landscape like pathways through time. And the bridges, especially backcountry bridges, allow us to vault chasms that divide, permitting us to experience worlds that seem near enough to touch, but impossible to attain. Simple in form and function, with a singleness of purpose unchanged since the dawn of human history when primitive humans opportunistically traversed a fallen log to reach new land, fresh opportunity. It is no wonder that bridges have come to symbolize human aspirations and folly, and a few to represent some of the greatest achievements of human engineering endeavor.
Bridges remind us of what it means to be human, to be perpetually reaching out for unachievable objectives, to dream, but to dream our dreams in the reality of the present, while fully awake. Great bridges are grand engineering and architectural masterpieces and building them is amongst the most challenging of construction endeavors. Joseph Strauss, the builder of the Golden Gate Bridge, once proclaimed: "Building a bridge is like having a war with the elements of nature".
--Carroll Vogel
Bridge building represents nothing less than a triumph of the human spirit.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
--Arthur C. Clarke
J O U R N E Y
home...
"The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination."
--Don Williams, Jr.
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience.
You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
--Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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To Brooklyn Bridge
How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest
The seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him,
Shedding white rings of tumult, building high
Over the chained bay waters Liberty--
Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyes
As apparitional as sails that cross
Some page of figures to be filed away;
--Till elevators drop us from our day...
I think of cinemas, panoramic sleights
With multitudes bent toward some flashing scene
Never disclosed, but hastened to again,
Foretold to other eyes on the same screen;
And Thee, across the harbor, silver-paced
As though the sun took step of thee, yet left
Some motion ever unspent in thy stride,--
Implicitly thy freedom staying thee!
Out of some subway scuttle, cell or loft
A bedlamite speeds to thy parapets,
Tilting there momently, shrill shirt ballooning,
A jest falls from the speechless caravan.
Down Wall, from girder into street noon leaks,
A rip-tooth of the sky's acetylene;
All afternoon the cloud-flown derricks turn...
Thy cables breathe the North Atlantic still.
And obscure as that heaven of the Jews,
Thy guerdon...Accolade thou dost bestow
Of anonymity time cannot raise:
Vibrant reprieve and pardon thou dost show.
O harp and altar, of the fury fused,
(How could mere toil align thy choiring strings!)
Terrific threshold of the prophet's pledge,
Prayer of pariah, and the lover's cry,--
Again the traffic lights that skim thy swift
Unfractioned idiom, immaculate sigh of stars,
Beading thy path--condense eternity:
And we have seen night lifted in thine arms.
Under thy shadow by the piers I waited;
Only in darkness I shy shadow clear.
The City's fiery parcels all undone,
Already snow submerges an iron year...
O sleepless as the river under thee,
Vaulting the sea, the prairies dreaming sod,
Unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend
And of the curveship lend a myth to God.
--Hart Crane
HART CRANE AND THE WOMAN WHO TOUCHED JESUS' ROBE
westminster-bflo.org/sermonrepository/2007/aug0507.pdf [westminster-bflo.org/sermonrepository/2007/aug0507.pdf]
endex.com/gf/buildings/bbridge/bbridge.html [endex.com/gf/buildings/bbridge/bbridge.html]
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towerbridge.org.uk/TowerBridge/English [towerbridge.org.uk/TowerBridge/English]
Completed in 1894, Tower Bridge was instantly hailed as a London icon and one of the great engineering marvels of its age. Come inside to explore its history, uncover its secrets and to enjoy stunning views from its high-level Walkways, situated 42 metres above the River Thames.
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