zen...

Say one word with your mouth shut.                                       Zen Saying

I have this thing about hanging pictures and properly placing things about.  Can't deal with the high in the sky method or the I didn't give it much thought technique. I'm not above asking for help and paying for it. I know when I'm out of my league. I did get a helper to assist in hanging my pictures in the condo on Folly and was happy to sigh in relief when it was done. 

Except:

I changed my mind!  Yes, I moved a piece and could not get it level.  I moved it a quarter inch this way.  I moved it a tad that way. I moved it up. I moved it down. The nail holes multiplied. They looked like a little village of pinpricks. It was always askew--a minute bit catawampus. Almost imperceptible, but it was there. I could see it from my chair.

Until:

One night I bumbled down the stairs in the dark, walked to the counter and horrors...I knocked it off the wall.  In exasperation, I picked it up from the floor and rehung the picture in the dark.  Actually, I just threw it on the wall.  And out of nowhere...

Magic:

It's perfectly level now...perfectly hung in the dark.

Because:

The whole of life lies in the verb seeing.               -Teilhard de Chardin