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Indeterminate Creatures
July 27, 2006
Monarch Brilliance ~ Canon 30d
Butterflies... not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Indeterminate creatures ~ interesting. I love the description. I want to become one.
Andre Gide once said, "Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly."
Pull out your net
try to define
who she is
that flutters by
A multi-layered
quadruple-winged
complexly curious
indeterminate thing
Thwip! Thwap!
nets can't contain
a soul that moves
then moves again
Pull out your net
and raise it high
you'll never catch
this flutter by!
~ susan j preston
Listen. You're brilliant. You're amazing. You're wonderfully unique.
You're also dysfunctional and crazy just like the rest of us.
Why not settle into your beauty for a spell?
Instead of overanalyzing ~ just flutter.
Posted by vincent at July 27, 2006 09:31 PM
Comments
hmmmm....i think i need to take you up on this advice...
Posted by: la vie en rose at July 27, 2006 11:21 PM
Flutter! Flutter to your hearts content!!! Flutter your way to happiness!!!
Posted by: janet at July 28, 2006 02:25 AM
Ha, FLUTTER FLUTTER... cracking me up mom. I hope all of you can see whose gene pool I heavily draw upon.
Posted by: susan at July 28, 2006 09:37 AM
Man, what a great shot, Susan!
...and what a nice matching of words.
Posted by: dan at July 28, 2006 05:09 PM
This shot is so unbelievably clear and the colors are just beautiful.
Posted by: aola at July 29, 2006 09:39 PM
I just finished helping teach a Bible school class of seven three-year-olds (yeah, that's right, what WAS I thinking?!) and they were the butterflies!
All the pre-schoolers had animal names, and while butterflies aren't particularly Biblical, the butterfly is apparently a symbol of resurrection. Makes sense:)
For the record, I had suggested we call them the Locusts, as in "plague of", but that didn't go over so well...
Posted by: tam at July 30, 2006 08:55 AM
Ah, Tam! Teaching a swarm of locusts about the bible! wah ha ha! If anyone could do it, I know you could ~ seeing as you've got the cutest two butter-locusts inhabiting your living room every single day.
:)
Hug katie and robert for me!
Posted by: susan at July 30, 2006 09:11 AM