Seeing Things.

I was sitting at my desk earlier and received a sudden, vivid impression of a picture. It showed a reed-fringed lake somewhere deep in the countryside. There was no place of human habitation in view. It was seen at twilight in winter, and showed a pallid sky streaked with pastel pink and pale grey. And then a big bird – maybe a heron – flew in from the right and landed on the water.

I’m not aware of having seen such picture lately, and it was no soft memory anyway; it was a sudden, vivid impression. I wonder where it came from.

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In stark contrast, I was just looking at a map of the world and noticed that Indonesia has the appearance of a salt water crocodile, creeping up on Australia and about to take a bite out of it. In fact, if you look at northern Australia, it appears that the beast has already taken a bite out of it. Forget all that stuff about plate tectonics. It was all the work of a giant, salt water crocodile.

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Isn’t imagination fun?