At the foot of the Scala Naturae

[Note:  We are at the eve of Lent. 

And in these pages,

politics mathematics  and movie-musings 

must needs recede 

in favor of meditations 

upon first and final things.]

In this place, we celebrate -- nay, glorify -- our buddies the bugs:

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2011/08/entomological-autobiography.html

And in this place, Murphy (more mystical than we) manages even to praise those less-than-animals, less-than-orchids:  the weeds:

http://murphybros.blogspot.com/2012/01/murphy-on-horticulture.html

For we are each -- dandelion, ladybug, or algebraic geometer -- one rung on the ladder, that leads (through rising ranks of angels) that ascends (past our understanding)…. to Him.