When you want words to be precise it usually means more words. I lean minimalistic then obsess with being simple and direct. I actively groan at the title of my previous post, and yet I let it go, for the sake of brevity; trusting that we share agreement on the definitions.
Let’s pause for quiet.
It is good when we do this regularly.
We love what we know. From the Dewey Decimal system to taxonomy, it’s a beautiful thing to define, catalog, and pinpoint.
Spring. Winter. Autumn.
It’s perspective, further away fuzzy or close up with detail. In our drive toward clarity, we need both views.
What does it mean? What happens when… and the pinnacle question, ‘WHY?
The answer to ‘why’ is always ‘because.’ There is always another question, there is no bottom to this one.
Freezing Fog, January 2018.
Flash freezing. We know the precise mechanism of this rare condition. It’s useful to know the volatile properties of water.
Keep going. Why water? Why is it elemental to everything?
Because it always has been.
We can stop there and let water be water.