"beautiful!"

just had another one of those moments - of reading and (yes) gasping at the joy of words and how, by mere rearrangement and little alteration in meaning, they bring veritable showers of joy upon us. yesterday (in my inward bound post), i'd offered an analogy of the ground shaking beneath us to effect mobility and growth. the analogy did serve to express what i wanted it to, perhaps, but a's post brought me a wholly new and brilliantly positive perspective to revel in. i share it with you here:

On the day when
the weight deadens
on your shoulders
and you stumble,
may the clay dance
to balance you.
(- Beannacht, John O'Donohue)

the visual imagery generated from 'the ground shaking' and 'the clay dancing' are perhaps similar, but the two leave one with discretely different after-effects. don't you agree? leaving you to ponder, instead of imposing my own interpretations :).