One more thing before I "beat the burlap"

A quote from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:

"All the time we are aware of millions of things around us...but not really conscious of them unless there is something unusual or unless they reflect something we are predisposed to see. We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world."

-p. 69

Do you know how sad this makes me feel?