The water-bug’s mittens show on the bright rock below him.
~ Ezra Pound, addendum to Canto C

“Water Striders in a Lotus Pond", Kōno Bairei

“The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflection; the water has no mind to retain their image.”
(Zen poem)

“How often are you aware of your surroundings, really aware? And how often are you merely reacting in the same automatic way as you do in dreams?”
~ Stephen LaBerge,
Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable-And Couldn't

Art: Mark Rogers

I have some thoughts regarding Sissy SpaceX sniffing around our social security, Medicare, and Medicaid…

Criminally under-read.

“Cold is the night, and still, and strange,
Stars they glitter and shimmer.
All are asleep in the lonely grange
Under the midnight’s glimmer…
All but the Tomten are dreaming…”
~ from Viktor Rydberg.

Art: Leah Rose, “The Tomten and the Fox”

I don’t know if it’s the root, but it certainly helps.