A flock of snow geese.

This quote;
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murchoch (via Sassy, thank you)

rang true. Perhaps we've become unreal.

Meanwhile, back in reality, we protect ourselves from intimacy by keeping secret our true nature, and then we protect ourselves from intimacy by revealing our true nature. Stephen sent us a beautiful card once about the snow goose, who does not have to try to be white.
And how terrifying it is to be understood.