Contemplating Machu Picchu this morning courtesy Sunrise Earth on the Discovery HD Theatre channel. This photo is of Sunset, according to Wikipedia. Which gives me...and you...a day to contemplate the sheer majesty of what people can accomplish when they put their minds and hearts to it.
Consider the planning, the scouting that first revealed the site, and then the nearly endless time to laboriously design and construct wall after wall, terrace after terrace, rampart after rampart. The work that had to be done to support the builders. Gathering food. Making garments. And tools. And weapons...of war and survival.
Machu Picchu is a designated World Historic Site. Surely it is the greatest treasure of Peru.
Gives one pause to wonder...what are we building these days that would endure and inspire such awe a hundred years from now? Five hundred? A millenium?
Kind of puts in perspective worrying about daily ups and downs and trackings and who'll be in the veepstakes, now doesn't it?
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UPDATE: But if you're really, really curious and you can't tear yourself away from the guessing game, Sen. Byron Dorgan told a local Fargo talk radio host this morning he thinks it'll be Biden. We'll see....
Meanwhile, back to Machu Picchu....
UPDATE 2: So does Howard Fineman...
Hmmm, time to check the inbox?
UPDATE 3: Biden says no, it ain't me babe...ah, no, no, no, it ain't me...
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