Aspiration

Yesterday, walking through Golden Gate Park, I came unbidden to an abandoned park bench with an empty beer bottle sitting beside it, and was saddened, conjuring the condition of the person who consumed the beer and abandoned the bottle. Finding the image striking, I took a picture of the bench and the bottle. 

I am saddened also by my inability to share the image, as I am not able to upload it on the squarespace.com blog for some unknown reason.

Re-reading "Middlemarch" I read it as a criticism of the 'high mind', that quintessential christian notion to which much too much of human conduct aspires and fails.