Wave machine.
The war drum in my ear drum warning me of anything that will take away my peace.
A drink from the fire hydrant of perpetual novelty. Always newer in its knew-ness.
Boldness without reckless self-assurance. Psalm 138:3
The color of pride when one is so caught off guard, wounded, and so busy trying to assert or reassert self-confidence, that one's ear can't hear to listen. It can only naively hear how to save face at all costs. The wounded and proud ear listens instead for what everyone might be saying rather than listening out for the well-being of others.
In the common sense approach to nuts and bolts reality, the pain of confusion or the confusion of pain can make common sense impotent. I call this the gap theory. Wisdom fills in the gaps of common sense in an immediate need or task that has hit a pothole or sinkhole.
Refusing to turn off the scenario cinema often expressed as "But, what if......?"
A sinkhole appearing as a safe haven.
Charcoaled shades of grey. Blackened white. Colorless pupil. Angry people.
A pain from a pain.
Keeping ahead of the sharp perceptions of the focused.
Buying a feeling being sold, rather than obtaining at all costs the Wisdom of old. We display, as we do expensive jewelry, the feelings we have bought into. Yet wisdom proves it's own worth above feelings, so that feelings may line up in the right fashion. Proverbs 23:23
Insight-producing activity making assessment therapeutic. Romans 1:11,12
Craving solitude but hating loneliness.