"One of the most magnificent parts about my Amsterdam trip was meeting a 75-year-old woman who blew my heart open. She said she sometimes gets a book but like a relationship, she doesn't dive into it all at once. She sets it down and sort of lives with it. Walks around it. Has her tea near it. And then when it feels right, she enters into relation-ship with it. She said this on the day I was midway through The 7 Simple Principles of Physics. It was that day I was learning about the ghost electrons by Einstein now called subatomic particles. The atoms in between that cause "entanglement". He showed that pairs of sub-atomic particles can be invisibly connected in a way that transcends time and space. So this darling woman wasn't just doing something poetic with her reading material, but quantifiable in method. Her particles and the book were becoming entangled. These threads were tied together while I imagined myself in relation to this new city, introducing myself atomically before beginning my day."
True poetry in motion.
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