I love to tell the story of visible and quantifiable objects above - recognizing that transcendence is often an excuse for maintaining status quo inequalities - in fact, too much focusing on unseen things blinds us to the wonders that we can see - often I suspect that people talk about the intangible and the spiritual as a means of ignoring the world that is here: and so they can excuse themselves from not looking deeply, giving only a passing glance, ignoring the faces of people and the slant of light across the tree tops - I prefer to tell the story of the visible and measurable, even as we devise methods of seeing the faint and discerning in space the greatly small
