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A note from Dr. Hendrix
This poem imagines the brain as sheets of steel bolted together with no fixed center — and lands on honesty as the thing that lets those pieces flow into one. I wrote it because I have never felt like a single, settled self so much as a moving center, and I have found that only honesty keeps me whole.
— Dr. Roger Hendrix · We share these stories so you can know the family behind GreenTeaHP.
Did you know
that our brain did not grow
All at once?
A little here
A little there
and here we are.
It’s like different
sheets of steel being
bolted
together.
That’s our brain.
There’s no center
to our brain.
We go from sheet to sheet.
There are those who
work at hanging those sheets
and turning them into pools
which flow together.
We see a moving center:
It’s honesty that holds our brain together.
Honesty turns over each day to courage.
A gentle river comes to view,
It’s love flowing through.