Wonders and Innocence

"Desert Nights - Vegas Valley" by Drew John Tankersley

Happy sez- This painting I am told is an impression of the Las Vegas Valley circa 1992.  If you are familiar with that area you can see from the different colors of the city that light up the surrounding valley about what year it is and you can tell by the hues that it is in the fall or winter.  If you step back from the human side of
things and look at this part of the desert from a non-human prescriptive you must wonder what the animals
in the still-wild part of the valley and the surrounding mountains must think when they look down and see all the crazy hustle and bustle of the humans with their tools, technology and the type of minds that finds those things useful. What wonders and dangers we have they must think, lethality at a distance, the ability to turn night into day, shelters  to feel safe in, ways to fix illness and injury, and perhaps most important of all - always enough to eat.   Yet, in spite of all our superior technology and the type of minds that generate it, perhaps they have a feeling that something is not quite right with us, that something is missing, something big and important, something they can't understand or comprehend being without.. Now what could that be that all of God's creatures have but us?  What could all of God's creatures in Vegas Valley and elsewhere have instinctively that Man and his glorious city have not?  Oh yes, I think I might know.  Innocence.

Let me know what you  think.

Here are some links you might find interesting:

Chabad.org
Christian Bible Reference
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Dean Koontz
Koshland Science Museum