"The First Day"   "Today is the First Day"     Music by Dj D'Artagnan, aka John Somnitz as featured at the 2006 Winter Olympic festivities in Turin, Italy - cover design by Philip Staiger, powered by Project Dogwaffle play the sound!

5,000,000,000 years ago, in a dead, futureless quadrant of the galaxy, rocks and
 chunks of ice drifting aimlessly, afloat in the vacuum of endless silence....

let there be Life - a split-second decision?

    Was it a Godly decision, a heavenly lightning that struck this region of the Milky Way, saturated with interstellar dust and water ice, floating aimlessly in space?  Or was it 'just' fate, Dr. Murphy reminding the universe that "if anything can go wrong, it will..." or in plain lingo, "shit happens" - quantum physics building up to such levels of electrostatic tension that even the sheer vacuum of space and void could not stop it, could not prevent the flux and sudden discharge of life-promoting energy, ice-melting warmth, could not  avoid the rock-crushing and gravity-defying momentum,  interrupting a futureless status-quo, triggering something new, something big, something potentially promising?

  Whatever caused it,... in this quadrant of the galaxy, as a result of a split-second decision or from the essence of cataclysmic mishaps - Life has suddenly begun. And even if Life can only exist with its counterpart, Death, we are so blessed to see it, hear it, feel it, experience it, share it. So even if God had nothing to do with it at first, we're still so lucky she decided to manage the project.... if not for any other reason than to contemplate and enjoy the show.

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Dedicated to the 2006 Winter Olympics, Turin/Italy and
Dj D'Artagnan's "Today is The First Day"

"Lonely Tree"

copyright 2006 Martin Duerr