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In the Beginning

Creation to the end times.

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Creation to the end times, told with a smile. The first eight haiga are the six days and the seventh, when God is tired enough to take a nap, with one question — what is beyond change? — rung between them like a bell. Then the fall, the flood, forty days in the desert, and the church calendar from burning palms to a hangover on Ash Wednesday. The middle turns to the big questions: the watchmaker, turtles all the way down, angels dancing on a pin. The last movement plays the apocalypse for laughs (Nostradamus might have warned us) before settling honestly: no one knows what happens after death, and everything boomerangs from nothing back to nothing.

The haiga, in order

33 haiga · as they appear in the video
  1. on the first day was / nothing until God said "light" / and then there was light
  2. What is beyond change? / That which was before change and / will be after change.
  3. on the second day / God poured water down low and / hung the sky up high
  4. on the third day God / raised land from the seas then made / flowers, grass, and trees
  5. on the fourth day God / hung the sun and the moon then / scattered out the stars
  6. on the fifth day God / made birds and fish that flew and / swam and splashed and splished
  7. on the sixth day God / made all that crawls, jumps and runs, / then Adam and Eve
  8. and on the seventh / day, God was tired so he / only took a nap
  9. once the fall entered / the picture, humanity / was pretty much doomed
  10. Once the ark was done / Noah had a front row seat / to watch the world's end
  11. after forty days / alone in the desert you / learn that God loves you
  12. burn the palms of joy / so dust can return to dust / repent and believe
  13. a hangover on / ash wednesday means that you had / a great fat tuesday
  14. the heavens declare / the glory of G-d = / to mathematics
  15. gravity is god / it controls space time and binds / us all together
  16. if you find a watch / in a forest does it mean / there's a watchmaker
  17. first turtle stands on / second one's shell; it's turtles / all of the way down
  18. if no one seeks it / does enlightenment exist? / a tree falls, silent
  19. an angel puts on / wings every time a bell rings / but in-between rings
  20. how many angels / can dance on a pin depends / on the dance they do
  21. a god bless you will / keep a soul in its body / with every sneeze
  22. god loves irony / so there is still time for you / to become a saint
  23. if our nature is / truly evil, then being / good is but a choice
  24. if you meet buddha / when you are out on the road / you should not kill him
  25. these are the end times / if you are reading this then / you've been left behind
  26. the end of the world / is upon us if you could / only read the signs
  27. hey, Nostradamus / a head's up would have been nice / in your prophecies
  28. water or fire / which is your preference for / the end of the world
  29. one day hell will freeze / and then we will all have to / do what we once said
  30. the most popular / song played in hell is, of course / stairway to heaven
  31. when the aliens / finally land, won't they be / confused by us all?
  32. when we are honest / nobody really knows what / happens after death
  33. like a boomerang / from nothing to something else / then back to nothing
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