While on a trip years ago to Dominican Republic, I took White Ladder CD by David Gray. My dog had recently sired a litter of pups which I photographed the births. There is a song with lyrics, “We’re born with our eyes wide open, so alive with wild hoping…” and I started thinking puppies, kitties eyes’ are closed for weeks so they enter with a controlled amount of sensory information whereas we are slapped into the world of air vs water we were in, sound, sight, touch – bam – overwhelm! No wonder we sometimes hide, until older and wiser, we open our eyes again …