Why does it work?
What is true about this? Where is the connection?
Why does it work here? Will it work somewhere else? What, in this, is universal?
Really, I do not take credit for this train of thought. I don't. It's just the way my brain connects things to other things and makes a perspective about Reality. But I know it's merely a perspective. So that's why I always want to know
What are you looking at?
What do you see?
Those are not the same question - they are two questions. You may be looking at the same thing I observe, and we may see two things, entirely different - or we two may see three or ten or a hundred things.
Usually, though, what we see is there. Somehow, it is there.
And if, through age or experience or just plain old exhaustion, I lose the ability to stand where you stand, and see - at least a little - what you see
If I become unwilling or unable to shift a bit to one side or the other, or to squint in the light just so, and find your focus and trace at least the outline of your vision,
I will know that I am dead.
Until then, until the day I say to you, "I cannot see it. It is not there," if you tell me there's a boat, there's a boat. Show me.
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