Positivity and urgency combine to create beauty.

Here's a link to a commencement speech delivered on May 3 to the graduating class of the University of Portland by a gentleman named Paul Hawken. My favorite part? This.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead the stars come out every night, and we watch television.

This is just the kind of inspiration I needed, coming off a long, gray holiday weekend.

(I'll post some MeadowGrass pics soon, too. But don't hold your breath. That would be bad.)