to know me...

Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, 

for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. 

Put yourself behind my eyes 

and see me as I see myself,

 for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.

~Rumi

Form is Certainty

Form is certainty.

All nature knows this, and we have no greater adviser. Clouds have forms, porous and shape-shifting, bumptious, fleecy. They are what clouds need to be, to be clouds. See a flock of them come on, on the sled of the wind, all kneeling above the blue sea.

And in the blue water, see the dolphin built to leap, the sea mouse skittering, see the ropy kelp with its air-filled bladders tugging it upward; see the albatross floating day after day on its three-jointed wings. Each form sets a tone, enables a destiny, strikes a note in the universe unlike any other. How can we ever stop looking? How can we ever turn away?

-Mary Oliver