Footprints in the Windsm # 1240–Spaces between are alive!
Footprints in the Windsm # 1240
We may see the spaces between and among us as empty, especially empty of life. Yet I am getting glimpses of these spaces teeming with living possibility. Think of the space between flint and steel, the space static electricity leaps across (or is it from?). The attraction of earth and sun. The spinning and erotic dancers. Our betweens are alive & wherever you look are betweens!
Moreover the betweens are where we come alive. Watch mother and baby gaze into each other’s eyes. See how you are different for this person and that. Each person—each time—sparks a new something in us.
More than just being a place to hold these instances of life, more than a soup pot, I sense a livingness. There is here a continual coming into existence and disappearing of something that calls us by name. Here arises by waves one after another invitation after invitation.
Reach into the betweens
Careful!
The electricity could shock us!
Please pass it on.
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