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Sunday, October 21, 2018

Rocky Growth


Intellectually I know
that roots are tucked
in the thinnest crevices
of the rockiest of rock walls.

Intellectually I know
that below concrete sidewalks
a single dandelion
can break through and blossom.

Curiosity builds on intellect
searches for the roots of a problem
looks below the hardest surface
for blossoms despite life’s difficulties.


“Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, 
like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep 
on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.”
~ William James, A Pluralistic Universe

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