Michelangelo meets the particle accelerator

If you missed these poetic and well-researched thoughts from the Anchoress, you really should read them.

And if she writes stuff like this after drinking that "Mystic Monk" coffee, then I'm tempted to say "I'll have what she's having." Here's one of several crystalline paragraphs sparked by word of a new book from Andrew Parker:

From the mind of Michelangelo comes staggering vision applied one paint stroke at a time, and as he dabs at the stone, even he cannot dream that 600 years later, in a world where mankind considers walking on the moon to be “old stuff,” a scientist will ponder this work and discover within it another clue – another way of applying all we do know to that which we do not understand – thus angling Adam’s outstretched, tentative hand just the tiniest bit nearer to God’s.