Toni Stone may 4, 2017
401 Buck Hollow Road
Fairfax, VT 05454
there laughter celebration
it didn’t look like it was anything really worth a good laugh, until it was noticed that the curtains were not really closing anything off. the curtains, homemade curtains, did block a little of the darkness for sure…but, they did not shield the dark, like curtains could…only because the man who “closed the curtains” did not close them enough to really shut the darkness out. he only closed the curtains because the teacher said, “will you close those curtains?”
he had no commitment to have the curtains do anything really. he had no
reason to shut the darkness out…in fact, he likes the dark.
when we saw, and when it was noticed, that the 3 windows where he had
“shut the curtains,” still had openings where the curtains had not come together, there was a celebration of laughter. “oh my look, the curtains are not even
really shut!” people noticed.
usually no one would even notice…”these curtains are not keeping the
darkness out.” they looked closed enough, that they were not blatantly open.
the man who thought he had gotten the job done, came to see that he didn’t
get the job done, when the teacher pointed out that she had put three curtains
on each curtain rod, to be sure that one could definitely make the curtains make a barrier to the dark, even if it looked like the curtains would not fit.
he was surprised to find she also had a shade and a second curtain,
in case real darkness was really wanted…just in case.
he wondered why some one would do that, but that would be a conversation
for another day…for today, she wanted him to see that his commitment to the dark, had no real purpose…therefore, it was purposeful-less and it didn’t get the job done.
there was no integrity there.
laughter shows where something is missing.
a conversation for another day.
