Daily Signet

I have this image of joy borrowed from the movie “Immortal Beloved,” an image of a nine-year-old Beethoven floating on his back, naked in a pond on a sultry summer night, staring up into the magnificence of a star-populated sky. The “Ode to Joy” swells in the background as the camera pans back from a close-up of the boy into a 5,000 ft. view where suddenly Beethoven is indistinguishable from the other stars reflected in the water. At once he is swimming in stars and is a star; in one sense, he is swimming in pure joy.                        

Benjamin Martin

On This Day…

Baha’i remembrance of the Ascension of Baha’u’llah into heaven

G. K. Chesterton born 1874 in London, died 1936: writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay-theologian, biographer, literary critic
Works: Orthodoxy, The Man Who Was Thursday, Heretics
Quotes: “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” “The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”