What occurs as I look about
at
	beauty and destruction,
	joy and tragedy,
	nature and technology,
	humans and other living things,
is that all elements are rampant,
all performing within their own cycles.

The overall result is the continuation
of the process:
For me,
	that is paring down
	to free space
		and volume
	from predetermined restriction and decoration,
	to free light
	and
	to acknowledge the individual
	as a link in a 
	chain of consonance
	with all other parts of the universe;
Some acknowledgement of what already is,
	as well as
	our own efforts
	to place our mark
	on both the temporal and the stationary;
To search deep within
	for each dance of the molecules
	animate and inanimate.

"The New Paradigm Oracle" copyright 1999, 2000 by Elizabeth A. Ochoa. All rights reserved