Distance

 

The Theory of Everything and Nothing Looking at the sky at dusk last night We all see with a clarity at once suspect That there is no true distance between any Two things The smoke of recent fires has cleared The dogs go about their business On the hill under emerging stars And the homebound traffic a distant moan We are above it all Yet firmly entwined in the fray What falls between our eyes And the object of our gaze is less Than air, more than desire Traveling through this life We want nothing more than To connect, to rub up against all Life puts before us so indifferently Yet something intervenes Makes distances seem real, oppressive And connections tenuous, at best Walking here, side by side, alone Gaze out from here And see what Hawkings sees - Everything, and nothing All of a piece Nothing surrounds us Or dwells outside us The interpenetration of everything and nothing Closes the distances Between this hill and those stars

What Separates Us? Look at all the ways we feel apart from our own lives, or distant from those around us. Our electronic future makes it seem as though we are always connected. But is that really the case? When was the last time you really connected to another person? Not sex, but heart? When was the last time you really connected to your dreams, the ones you had that once excited you, the what-could-be dreams? Look at your work. What is the message that the world gives you about the work you do, making a living? That your real life doesn't begin until you leave your work? That you have to "get ahead"? That it is normal to resent working? Why are we told these things, and what harm is it doing to us all? What about play? When was the last time you spontaneously played? A game, skipping, made sand angels, played tag, painted your face, made silly faces? Why does that sound like something only children should do? Who made that rule? There are no right answers to any of these questions.  What are your answers? How will you find them?

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