"a red thread..."

the chinese
believe
that there is an
unbreakable
red thread
that connects a
mother
to her child...

across the wide
pacific
beyond the
great wall
a fine thread of
love...

if this is true,
then the universe is
a massive,
intricately strung,
radiant
matrix of red threads
all reaching from
one infinte
Mother God...to
each idea
She
gives birth to...

and it is
a most precisely
designed
and choreographed
dance of
silken
relationships...
never tangled
in jealousy,
never knotted with
fear,
never twisted
or snarled,
possessive or
negligent...

a direct
tenacious
thread
of
love...

from here to
there,
from the infinitesimal
to infinity,
from Her to
each of
us....

and them...

a silken
chrysalis
holding us,
touching us,
stretching
us
forward
like
tendrils of
love into
the immensity of
being...

painting by Duane Kaiser