Wednesday, July 21, 2010

11th Avenue six friends imaginary and real

Everyone deserves a playground. Find a place most like a playground. This may be a comfortable chair. Make this place accessible everyday. Believe that it occupies a space and time just here in the present moment. Like a gate, slip through and enter the playground.

G teaches me that we can know more than we know and that we can figure out great solutions to our concerns even without knowing all the details. Others have other details readily accessible.


So many stories from our past imply this realm rests as close as we let our imagination allow. Find it without great contortions. Remember the story that uses the magic words: Open Sesame? Open says me… Exercise sensations to open awareness. I think many people will think they can only accomplish this with mind-altering substances. I can see the experience all around us, though I think we sell our selves short. No substance gets us more fully and thoroughly into the present playground then our own willingness to go there, a clear glass of fresh water, a good stretch and a gentle reminder to come on.

X teaches me that unseen connections between things we don’t perceive show up with regularity. It seems we have a habit of explaining them as best we can and that an expanding science reveals them too.


As youngsters, most of us went out and played with someone else. It seems likely that we would include others in our rediscovered play. Use the cards as a play tool to invite others to join, embellish them with other tokens to make them more inviting. Use favorite words, expressions humor or homemade labels or stickers. Though also remember that we can have no idea what might happen when we go out to play, and it can be just right that way.

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