"Linguistic repetition, you learn from an early age, can give form or take it away, because it forces a confrontation with the malleability of language and the world we build with it, build upon it."

Ben Lerner

Birds lack the words to get tangled up in the whys. 

"After you read a poem just knowing you can hold it, you can be in that space of the poem. And it can hold you in its space."

~ Naomi Shihab Nye

When you catch yourself absorbed by some immediate aspect of your environment, try to yield to the observation fully for a few seconds.

This can still happen anywhere. Not everything is lost.