I gazed up at the lush green canopy of trees, and then down at the perfectly camouflaged tabby cat. The animal’s silvery striped coat was reflecting that same tree-green light, so that the fur mimicked the color of it’s surroundings perfectly.

What an amazing design! Each metallic silvery hair captured the cat’s environment, reflecting the colors-- perfectly matched-- back out into the world, allowing the animal to hide in plain sight.

Since a silvery tabby cat is colorblind, there’s no way that the cat can appreciate the enhanced stealth which the mirrored fur allows, so the animal goes about it’s life being unaware that the world is being reflected from it’s coat.

Similarly, just as the cat is unaware of it’s own relationship with the green canopy of leaves overhead, the humans like us will often not realize that it's actually US that we are looking at when we see the life around ourselves, presented in it’s seemingly infinite variety, and that ALL of it is merely a reflection of who we are.

Being much, much bigger that we are able to imagine, we might fail to notice that we are being reflected back at ourselves by every field of grass or shadowy canopy, every flitting bird and every greenish cat, and that what we are seeing in that deep reflection is us.

We humans might look around and see the entire universe as a single device, while still insisting that we are somehow separate from it, but that's because it's hard to believe that we are the device, and when we observe this universe we are looking into a mirror of infinite depth-- like us-- and it is hard to believe.

artwork above by me, colored pencils and ball point pen on 9" X 12" watercolor paper, 2018- for more variety, pictures and stories, click below these birds: