iv/ sixth pocket

another empty pocket with a question, and this one has a hole in it.

How hard is it to notice that what we believe is a way of packaging our perception of the past and the future? When we play we deepen our connection to the present; and so past and future can fade and lose their hold.

Do possessions really matter? Is this why we lose things when we play? Does the belief in possessing loosen?

To enter the realm of play requires an active imagination. An intention to suspend certain rules of daily living helps. We have to navigate certain limits that we accept without thinking. The simple act of holding an improbable or unexpected outcome as possible shifts the way in which we interact with the world that holds up the more likely outcome. That outcome screams, “ I am what happens!” We propose a quiet meditative playful retort,“I will gently hold onto this improbability!”

The improbable constantly occurs. Not oddly at all, the improbable requires its own occurrence by definition. Our goal places increased awareness on this occurrence. Sometimes play requires siding with the improbable. Playing embraces the improbable.


Attributed Meaning

Most people still have memories of attachment to objects from childhood that hold greater meaning and value than an observer might attach. These objects have been labeled transitional objects. The expression unfortunately implies a transition out of childhood dependency into adult independent functioning. I have arrived at a different conclusion. Shame tricks us into letting go of the mystery that allows attachment. These objects serve as reminders that affirm our ability to cross over into the realm of make believe. This realm fills itself continually with potential solutions to the smallest concerns and the greatest threats to the world’s ecology. Child idealism often becomes an avenue to generate global solutions to problems that adults bogged down with details, fail to fathom.

If a clutched teddy bear can support an individual through inner turmoil, then… Our current society advances exploitation of resources and ostentatious displays of wealth and conspicuous consumption. Have we simply found a way to create vast teddy bears out of home furnishings and jewelry, out of cars and planes, out of boats and swimming pools without giving ourselves simple truly sacred objects? We had these objects by our side when we were young, and they didn't take up much room.

There is a hole in my pocket.


Val asked for a donation to benefit a Belly Acres silent auction; and I am thinking about a bag of a hundred found pennies for good luck. What will the label say? May all these found pennies bring you and everyone around you compassionate good luck and may they inspire generosity.