What made you choose your profile picture?

I was working on a website with my partner Chris Hughes and my share was a blog devoted to body and a blog devoted to soul. I chose the Paul Klee image for decoration as one representative of soul. In the first place, it reminded me of soul because of the insistent and particular idiosyncracies of a highly personalized style through which the world is viewed or brought into being. The prominent black arrow descending from above, however, was what made me most think of soul, especially as it is viewed separately from spirit. I had been reading Thomas Moore and James Hillman on the soul at the time and was quite taken (even moved) by the idea of the soul being something heavier, denser, messier, more earthbound, and more complicated than pure ethereal spirit, which is always striving to return to its source in upward flight. The arrow came to signify for me the descending soul and the line of destiny or fate that it is bound to fulfill if true to itself. It is something like a Platonic idea moving down into a cacophany of attractive forms that prompt attention in any number of possible directions in a dense, messy, fascinating, charming world.