Castles
Everything washes away. Entropy is worked into the fabric of the universe. That's not just a philosophical concept, either, but a scientific fact. Physicists tell us that there will not only be a day when everything we know of the world is gone, but the universe itself will dissolve into aimless, drifting particles. The good news is that before that day, we may have entropy pulling things apart, but we also have a tendency for things to come together. There are forces at work that take up disassembled bits and reconstruct new things from them, recycling the world over and over. Today's mountaintop may one day be part of the ocean floor, or the other way around. Last year's flowers may feed this year's sprouts- if they weren't converted to butter by some helpful cow. It goes without saying that humans play a role in this continual reshuffling of the deck. We all have an urge to build. Putting ...