To see is the root of idea, linguistically, and, for me, literally. Noticing something makes me see something I hadn't seen, helps me discover what cannot be seen directly or only at a different scale, from a different point of view. Which prompts me to question, seek answers, and find connections among seemingly unrelated things: valley bottom and vacant land; rock, volcano, hot spring, the formation of continents, oceans, and atmosphere; a blue band rising on the horizon at dusk, the Earth. Recognizing pattern, I can imagine what I cannot see: water underground, eroding; continental plates colliding; the Earth as a sphere, turning.