It's tough enough, we excavate this Stuff -- "something out of nothing," that's good -- with great difficulty or ease, but then sometimes go beyond integrity to make capricious judgments or use the work for other purposes, rejecting it, repudiating its truth or validity.
But the cycle starts anew and work is made from those salted ashes. Ashes but anew the work starts and from those is made salted cycle. By the willful arrogance of self-destruction, we privatize what had been made possibly too obvious, apparent and available. We eat our children, empowering us in ways powerful and dangerous. But you can also redress absence and failure without disowning or contradicting, by acknowledging and confirming the small possible rather than nullifying. Outwitted He drew a circle that shut me out -- Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in. -- Edwin Markham
