Humans don't belong on pedestals. Trapped and enshrined by the allure of others' admiration for something we have done or an ideal we may represent for them can affix us...

"Why, I ask myself, shouldn't the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?" ---Van Gogh...

...there it was, small, but defiantly reminding me that no storm can stop a new day from being born. ...