The Puzzle of Order

What a gorgeous day it is today, what subtle architecture of light seems to fill the hour. While my to do list beckons, I have to take time to ruminate a bit on Order as it appears this morning.

Each plant and animal and living structure bears its unique order, cascading hierarchies of traits like you see most clearly in trees. I also see these beautiful subtle structures in people and am so deeply moved and humbled. In each mind, unique tendencies and preferences uncoil from an inimitable sensibility, especially in the case of artists, whose work sometimes reflects the delicate playfulness and self-atunement which to my mind resembles the infinitely various patterns God's breath makes when it blows and melts the elements into networks of unutterable beauty. A man, a woman, her mind, a snowflake, a dancing city of woven light.

Considering the infinite array of order in minerals, plants and animals, elements, planets, suns and galaxies, this 3 dimensional patchwork of form and law, the instinct of animals and man, the sensibilities and interests of writers and artists, builders and chefs, doctors and mothers and gardeners and arborists, the invisible cords that pull the curiosity of scientists into various configurations, leave me peaceful and fulfilled. For once, not hungry. For a moment, happy to be like air or water and mold to revelations of form.