Sunday, June 14, 2015

Maintenance

The fourth stage of change. I would name it something other than maintenance. I would much rather see it in terms of connection, of weaving it into the whole. This is perhaps a more spiritual way of looking at it, but then again, I am a priest, and this is the way I come at things. Maintenance is the final stage of change. I wonder if there should be a fifth stage which carries it even further.

What a boring term
For the final stage of change.
I would name it
Perhaps
Weaving:
Finding the place
In the warp and the woof
Where this change fits;
Finding the place
Where the weaving is not whole
Without it;
Finding the place
We would miss
Were it not present;
Finding the place
Others would say
You
Are not You
Without it.
This is way more than
Cookies and milk,
Way more than one or two
Atta boy
Atta girl
This involves
A whole community
Gathered around the table
Woven together.


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