“It is finished”, when Jesus said it, remember, on the cross, with his final mortal breath. He meant what he meant. Authoritatively speaking. No joke. Whether beauty from artifice and sacred-making, sacrifice, are distinctions with no real difference from the beauty found in sunrises and sunsets and such, is a judgement of a human activity…

Comparing today sunsets with my wife, hers is Samsung hot and Palm Springs bright, beautiful as mine, from slightly lower latitude and slightly higher altitude and slightly farther from the penumbric edge, mine is LG “life’s good” cool and Pine Valley hue-ish, wonderful. We have shared sunsets when we had nothing else to share, they…