Turns out,
we are not so different
from the grass or rocks
or laces in our shoes,
all composed of inconceivable
numbers of atoms. In each of us alone,
there are billions of billions
of billions of them, more than
there have been seconds in all of history.
The revelations to the magic tricks
were magic themselves, as if,
when Toto pulled back the curtain
in the Emerald City, the Wizard
was not a fraud but rather
even more magnificent
than imagined. Back then,
it made perfect sense to us,
that by piecing together
these atomic LEGOs,
we could create anything
and everything we dreamed of:
castles and bikes and narwhals
and sugar and moons.
And dream we did
beneath the sky
as limitless and star-studded
as our imaginations.~Allison Swenson, from ‘Elementary Magic’
photo: setting the camera down on some rocks to take a breather, a slippery thumb and that bulbous Nikon shutter button, only after later looking at the shots from the day did it become apparent that accidental photos – like this one from 2011 – are sometimes just as decent as some taken with much more planning and intent.