Physical

The theme for today is ...Summer

Let's get physical
it's the height of summer
things are in their most outwardly beautiful state
What can we experience
by a full appreciation of this?
What would that mean?

Perhaps a chance to be fully actual and present
just this
no abstractions

for a long time
we have lived in a dualistic world
by the time we managed to get where we are
we've learned to live with - and as - many dualities

we've made deals,
trading off one for another

our ancestors did the same
similar deals, creating the philosophical world we live in
Traded in terms of ideas about good and bad, better and worse

A series of deals and trades where we gave away a bit of wholeness

with each transaction
we rearrange the terms

This process continues
trade one thing for another,
maintain an equilibrium

while somewhere, we may believe
is the whole
somewhere other than here

we trade
the "bank" holds the sum

less commonly though
we encounter different opportunities
for either loss or redemption
could something be redeemed? That is, bought back?

It's interesting how far economic thinking works its way into the collective psyche
What if
we relaxed the dealing
the grasping

is there a "hand" one could open up
and then would reality come and enfold us?

Would that be to land in a different world?

Or this same one,
on a fine summer day?