Atoms have a nucleus, made of protons and neutrons bound together. Around this nucleus shells of electrons spin, and each shell is either full or trying to get full, to balance with the number of protons-to balance the number of positive and negative charges. An atom is like a human heart, you see.

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.

A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.

It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person

The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

Rock is much more malleable than ideas.