A Grain of Sand

that was a very beautiful and philosophical poem. thank you Urgelt

Your reading, it reminds me of Dr.Seuss. It was soo good :)

Urgelt! Still love this video, even after nearly 2 years since i discovered it.

very interesting. Do you play bass guitar? I need one for my band

Er, I'm afraid not.

Odd question to put on a poetry video.

I thank your voice - and you of course. What a gift!

Reductionism is a method of understanding in science.

But it is a trope of science that one cannot understand an ecosystem, nor a universe, solely by dissecting it into its parts. Relationships matter; everything is connected.

Science regards evidence as the sole arbiter of truth. But like any human endeavor, sometimes it needs to be guided into looking in the right places.

I am not alone in regarding native traditions as one of the best places to look.

Ah. Evidence is crucial at times... but can be a bad behavior. Sometimes just a mere snapshot of current truth against a constantly changing world where there are no guarantees.

I reckon that there are many ways of thinking required to understanding a universe. Reductionism may be one. Relationships another. Seeing flux, balance, and its patterns, perhaps.

But thus, we are limited to language to interpret its understandings... and I doubt words are enough to comprehend it all.

Being a lover of words and language, I wish I could disagree.

But I cannot.

Galileo introduced the idea that mathematics is the language of nature. It's an idea that has long legs. But mathematics is a limited way to grasp nature, too - it would take an unreasonable number of equations and minds to comprehend them to describe it all.

What we are left with is imperfect knowing. Science may be less imperfect than the rest; I think so, anyway. But there will always be mystery.

And that is a very good thing for poets, I think you'll agree. :-)