a minute

There is honestly a great deal more I should be doing than this. My wife grew up with a thing called "mental health days" which I am still not convinced is as health as it sounds but I am big proponent of "mental health fifteen minute sit and stares." So in honor of stability I just want to say that some of the trees just outside look particularly beautiful right now. I must say I prefer the sort of leaf that is compounded and "fern-like." I must also say I have always enjoyed pondering the "greater than the sum of its parts" conundrum. In the case of these compound leaves neither the usual cliche nor its inverse are particularly accurate. I am pleased to look at them up in the tree from this distance only getting a vague (and blurry since my eyes are beyond flawed) sense of the intricacies of each individual portion of the full leaf. Everything is beautiful. All of it. The ins and the outs and the parts and the wholes. It's got the whole package, you might say.

Ah, I feel much better.