I took this picture at home, so it doesn't count toward this month's daily challenge of taking a photo somewhere besides home. Hopefully I'll have another photo later, after we return from seeing Venom, Inc. It might be after midnight though. I'll be borrowing Jeanine's little point and shoot camera for the job, since my smaller camera didn't survive its plunge into the creek a week ago. I guess that immersing moist electronics in a bag of rice doesn't always work. It's a shame.
The quote above was found between the pages of the same Algernon Blackwood book that contained the pressed flowers & leaves I posted about last month. I just missed it the first time. I went back for another look because I'm reading it next, and I didn't want to end up fumbling through it for errant, dessicated flora in the middle of the night. Now, I have a small bag full of the former in-between contents of the book, and the book itself is ready to be read.
I find this quote strangely prescient, since it deftly describes the danger of the kind of selfish, small-picture thinking that permeates our society at every level. I'm not saying I agree with nationalism, because I definitely don't, but the idea that our failure to see the big picture will be our undoing is one that I wish more people would understand. My big picture extends to the whole world though, not just one country, whether it be ours or another.
Soon after I posted this picture on Facebook, Jeanine saw it, googled it, and discovered its source: the December 14th, 1922 edition of the New York Times. I can't access the whole article without being a subscriber though, so the context is still unknown to me. See the link here.
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