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I've been playing with my vision, my perception, shifting my eyes out of focus to see things slightly different.  Its strange how objects assume identities when you let them play, lines on paper, light through clouds, shadows on the wall, and lines on skin - all of these things have life and identity when singled out and freed from our normal perceptions.  It is beautiful.  We humans are such prisoners to our learned perceptions..  we lose it in childhood when we try to be part of this world, then we forget the gift.  We give up the child's eyes and all he's seen, that inner child, or something that was awed by everything that passed by his eyes...

I contemplated this as I drove home tonight, how people say that its all about perception, all about how you perceive things, but its not so simple. Its also about what you focus on and how you focus.  Its also what you are aware of - the possibilities that you believe exist of don't - thats when the choices appear and we perceive freedom of choice, then focusing on that choice of what we want to see, or feel.. Eyes are the window to the soul and so our souls travel to the world through our eyes.  We mingle with what we perceive and focus on, all the beauty, all the filth, all the passion, and all the pain.. All of it is for us to see, to feel, to touch, and to breathe in...