As a child of the 1960s, I comprehend all too well the purpose of protest.
In this image, "The Essence or Peculiarity of Man Is to Comprehend a Whole, the 15th of December 1858," Mr. Lunn wears a voluminous toga, one hand raised to his gray beard, his head shown in profile.
At least, I assume he was, since I couldn't comprehend a word he said and spent the time marvelling that this vast, stooped, bald man, who looks like a polar bear attacked by a lawn strimmer, is almost precisely the same age as Cliff Richard".
I couldn't comprehend a world where people would not say "Good Morning" to a kind woman, who always came into my office with a smile and did me a favor by emptying my waste paper basket.
And as a father, I comprehend the Schindlers' crusade to keep their child alive at all costs.
I cannot begin to comprehend a position which holds that the mass murder of 3,000 of my American brothers and sisters should be brushed from public consciousness, I do, however, have some ideas about what underlies what has become, in academia, an almost pathological denial of 9/11 (not in the "truther" sense but the literal denial of it as an historical event).
I comprehend him too well tonight.
I comprehend, I even applaud.
I think we need both perspectives in order to fully comprehend a complex phenomenon like creativity.
For reasons I cannot fully comprehend, I chose to forge a new path and attempted to weather the impending storm amongst other sentient lifeforms.
Being one of the first to experience the sun rising in such a huge country is a strange thing, something much greater than I can comprehend, and it was an experience that topped the rest of the year's travelling for sheer natural wonder and beauty – and a great experience with people I care about.
