I’ve decided i want to be like varnish. I love it, it has this drippy consistency that oozes into the details of the wood and brings it forward, all these little nuances you would never have seen, and then it vanishes, the only evidence of its passing being all the beauty you would have overlooked before. It doesn’t alter, it only makes the wood more *wood*.

May i bring that to the people in my life. May i not change you, and only show you the nuances about yourselves you may have missed. May i help you see the beauty that was always there.

So mote it be.