Today Debra Barsha joined me as she was heading into Manhattan to rehearse a show she wrote. All that made her selection of #11 all the more potent.
#11 "Emptiness is Valuable"
Spokes, tire, rim, and hub all make a wheel,
Yet it is the space where the axel goes that makes it worthwhile.
Clay is formed into a vessel,
A vessel’s function is to hold things,
Thus its form includes emptiness.
A house can be built
But if it were solid, it would be useless.
It is easy to see structure,
But structure is only there to expose the value of emptiness.
En liten tjänst av I'm With Friends. Finns även på engelska.