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Monday with Marley
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 | July 7, 2008  My second daughter,
Dana, emailed me and asked if I would write a snippet on Independence. She'll
send it, along with one hundred dollars to somebody who is going to read it,
along with probably thousands more, selecting just one, which wins the chosen a
new home. What the heaven. Why not! Independence in one hundred fifty words or less: Independence is earned. We yearn for it from the moment we leave the womb. We demand it as toddlers. We fight for it as teenagers. We strive for it in relationships and in business and brag about having so much of it. However, about the time we finally get it, we long to have less of it. Independence evolves, at least our understanding of independence, evolves. Only through the passage of time lived do we gain the wisdom that nothing is independent from anything else. There is no such thing as independence, except when independence is understood as a state of mind. To be independent is to be dead. To acknowledge our interdependence on nature, on each other and on Creation; this is independent thinking, I think. After all, Creation may indeed depend on us to ponder its existence as we ponder our own. Marley Porter | |
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