the_optics_of_quietude ever dumbening In childhood, there is much hiding, for games for fear for safety for love (and _from_ all). Couch empires, backyard blinds, undercover under covers, car tires crouching footsteps pass. Physics and geometry, early learnings. Angles--of incident and refraction, lines, point sources, the body and the eye and the I, all with different centers. A small plastic periscope, both cheap and inexpensive, looks around the wooden corner into to the soft light of the 1975 living room. Learn what is seen and unseen, "of all that is [comma] seen and unseen." *** "In the pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Tao, every day something is dropped." 020131 ... unhinged it's amazing what you see when you are a silent observer i watch your interactions i watch the way they look at you and it always makes me feel worthless 020131 ... imploder stillness 020131 ... littel_elf the stillness of the air, pressing down, confining. no breeze to stir the trees, to make the grasses sway, the skin to cool. it is a hot summer day without a storm in sight. 030129 ... jane prism 081219 ... ah... so that's why silence is golden 081220 what's it to you? who go blather from