PENCIL SHAVINGS 

The squeamish may see pencil shavings as the painful result of skinning writing instruments.

The scientific mind will see them as the shedding and renovation of the outermost membrane of a pencil’s tissue.

For the spiritual, pencil shavings are seen as the desirable loss of material layers that expose the naked graphite soul.

And what do pencils think? They don’t.

Pencils were made to express other people’s ideas, not to think.