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.