*We can get into the way of thinking that everything that we do needs some kind of extrinsic justification.  Asking 'Why?' can become addictive.  We have, by and large, become suspicious of people just doing things because they want to.  When all else fails, we resort to curious pseudo-justifications, like going for walks 'for the exercise' or riding the motor bicycle 'for the experience'; worse still, we go all solemn and declare something to be 'important'.  So we decorate harmless occupations with high-sounding significances, like taking tea with someone 'just to keep the contact' or 'in case he wants to talk'.

...we can forget that no amount of trying ever automatically produced the desired result.
-Simon Tugwell


*If we are to be and to  act like God, if we are to appreciate the act of God, we must come to appreciate the point of pointlessness, the joy of unnecessariness.  We must learn to pay attention to the satisfaction there is sometimes in just doing something for its own sake, and not bias our view of life too much in the direction of those things which are always a struggle and which are always justifiable in terms of some solemn intention.
-Simon Tugwell

a prayer

brace boy the wood

that Jesus now thrusts 

at your brawn, brown shoulder.

slave the bar crossed as "t's" 

stationed in "death".

know once again 

what care and choosing love 

would bear to son you 

an Adam-signed creep

plodding the earth

important worth with the Spirit

in to live-forever.

sine aqua

cactus plant 

dried out reservoir 

staring prickly toward the calm sky blued 

and cleared of rain-clouds___

un-whetting souls gorge with eyeballs 

your lot of earth pleasuring 

toward mirages mirrored from your root

it is a gravitial fixation 

of the spirit's parching thrust of vapors 

clinging to atoms away on tour.

prince charmings of fairy cattle

and tales that happily end 

ne'er knew the bleached-bone whiteness 

that staid cacti present