I believe it is the generative nature of grace that our animating forces are so deeply embedded within our bodies. Discovering what we look like, a process that seems like it would be a very personal experience of the autonomous self, is actually a communal experience.

Since we’re unable to get out, walk around, and kick the tires of our human vehicles, we are forced to use a kaleidoscope of data. In order to be able to see any reflection of ourselves, we have to gather colorful fragments of information from the gaze of others, and piece it together with shards from our imagination. the shape of us shifts with every turn.

arm’s length is a comfortable distance. It shifts the focus away from the fine cracks, the asymmetry, the blemishes, and allows the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

the lenses and filters of perception are inescapable, and make objectivity an easy mistake for subjectivity in the eyes of both the beholder and the beheld.

P e r c e p t i o n alters e v e r y t h i n g