Brilliant Disguise

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. = Thoreau

sleepy, bloodshot eyes

seawater in a hushed mouth

brilliant disguise

Author's Note

"Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a lesson to man! So are human beings, referred to the highest standard, the celestial fruit which they suggest and aspire to bear, browsed on by fate; and only the most persistent and strongest genius defends itself and prevails, sends a tender scion upward at last, and drops its perfect fruit on the ungrateful earth. Poets and philosophers and statesmen thus spring up in the country pastures, and outlast the hosts of unoriginal men." - Thoreau