The Big Cheese was a Peace Maker

• Location: windowsill, Bank of America
• Date: April 29, 2008
• Description: small blue crane with a bible quote written in red block letters.

You may have noticed something strange going on with my photo today. I wish I could say my camera did that all by itself, but that would be a lie. I left this very cute crane at the bank, and when I went to take a picture, I realized my camera battery was dead. So I decided in lieu of not posting a crane today, I would draw a reasonable facsimile of what the picture would have looked like. Isn’t it great?

The crane is posing on a windowsill. Outside the window you can see the road (black), the sidewalk (gray), the bottom part of the stoplight (those gray rectangular things near the top), and the start of a green patch where a tree once grew. Since it was raining today, I added in raindrops falling and splattering on the window. I’m so artistic.

Here’s the quote for today’s crane: “And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, And never again will they learn war” — Isaiah 2:4. Although I am not a religious person, I thought the quote very nicely illustrated the feeling of peace, particularly turning weapons into useful objects. I suppose a weapon has its uses too, and in that way it’s useful, but I like the image we can conjure with this quote: no more war means never again needing weapons. Ah, that would be the life.

Some people might argue that killing each other is a human instinct, and that we have always fought wars; therefore, we’ll always fight wars. The basis for this is that humans have been killing one another throughout the ages. If the bible was written about 2000 years ago, we can speculate that at least one person in that time period had the idea to think peace — maybe more! I don’t know the bible by heart. I’m sure there were others, though.

My car broke a little bit this morning. It’s all fixed now, thanks to some really great mechanics in this area, but I feel like this day is never-ending.