Item 5 Floaters & the Search for Intrinsic Value

What you see is what you get: it is all or nothing. It all

has to mean something vital or nothing at all so don't sweat

the details they are interchangeable and will all come out

in the wash, become trapped in the lint filter where we

can attempt to read them as tea leaves, or wait - maybe

it is both: all and nothing, what you get

is what you see and if you are lucky you will see what it is

to be. Maybe the cork screw of inner eye detritus that dislodged

from the back of my cornea sixteen months ago and swims

back and forth across my vision in its inner aquarium

appeared to remind me of the gospel of 'stop sticking your grody

fingers in other people's eyes to try and clear their point of view';

Focus instead on being flexible and automatically tuned like

a view finder. Micro, macro, up close and personal or very far away:

be mindful-- you know how those boxes appear over blades of grass

in search of a face to recognize, you still have to aim before you press

the button to hold onto what you thought you saw. There are no such things

as ghosts, but there are always shadows, always things that get in the way

of what the world might be trying to show us if we would only look beyond

what we think we see. We might capture the swish and switch,

steal a glimpse of the exact moment the magician sneaks the card up his sleeve.