Thanks for bringing poet Robert Lax (1915-2000) back into my consciousness. If the nautilus shell symbolizes growth from a center, then this thought from Lax’s Circus of the Sun (1960) gently reminds of the continued need to return our core at different life stages.

Lax

Sometimes we go on a search and do not know what we are looking for, until we come again to our beginning

I get it now, I didn’t in my twenties… Nautilus Notecard