[OSList] The Power of Not (Harrison Owen SR)

[Judith Stemerdink-Herret]

Dear Harrison,

I am just reading your poem and thoughts about “not” and space - how wonderful this metaphors!
It is touching me and resonance arises. 

Thank you very much for sharing with us,
Judith


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> From: Harrison Owen SR <hhowensr at gmail.com>
> Subject: [OSList] The Power of Not
> Date: 27. April 2022 at 20:46:06 CEST
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> The Uses of Not
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>  
> Thirty Spokes
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> meet in the hub.
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> Where the wheel isn=t
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> is where it=s useful.
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>  
> Hollowed out
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> clay makes a pot.
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> Where the pot=s not
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> is where it is useful.
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>  
> Cut doors and windows
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> to make a room.
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> Where the room isn=t
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> there=s room for you.
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> So the profit in what is
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> is in the use of what isn=t.
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>  
> Lao tzu: tao te ching
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> ................................................................................. 
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> A circle of people with nothing in the middle. To the casual observer the scene is prosaic, odd, even boring. To those in the circle the feelings are different: fear, expectation, confusion, disorientation, anxiety, disbelief. How did we get here and what do we do?
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> Moments later the circle breaks and people flood to the center creating the elements of a new story they will tell each other about their dreams and expectations and how they might be fulfilled.
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> The shift in mood and mode is swift, almost passing notice of that casual observer. Something is created out of nothing... in an instant.
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> How?
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> Could it be
> 
> the power
> 
> of not?
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