A Ripple in Reality

It was just a quiver— a tiny vibration in the pattern, seen as a small break in the display. A sound that had no clear cause. A flash of light, sudden and sharp. A shadow that drifted on its own. It's the cracks that let the light in, if we notice them— and stay open to awe and belief. We are taught to mistrust the strange, to fear what doesn't fit. To label the unfamiliar, unusual things that occur as flaws in the system. We cling to the idea that everything must have a logical explanation in the real world. This shrinks our capacity to imagine, to be creative.