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Mervyn reminded us often during meetings
about the importance of crystallizing in our verifications.
I see him gesturing with his hands in front of his chest
as he mimes stringing single pearls onto a string,
each one a verification.
Listening to Mervyn
I remember being drawn to the image of a pearl.
Mervyn described the great rarity
of a single pearl's miraculous existence.
It seemed impossible
that what he described
could be a pearl's path to creation,
the irritation inside the oyster
of many single grains of sand.
I knew I would be home
looking this image up later
and departed easily from the I'd
of my lunar fascination
with facts and science
because Mervyn was guiding the conversation
along to the pearl's relevance to awakening
and mechanical friction.
Why is the string of the necklace in my attention
now after all these years?
The string must be strong and flexible
and can be seen as the essential vehicle
for the collection of verifications.
It can be worn,
and that distinguishes it from loose pearls
in a collection box or bag.
In this way it can be described as sacred
because without these verifications
Mervyn saw another path
where we could lose the work.
Over time I understood that concepts can be verified.
It starts with the question:
How can I verify this?
Then the journey begins.
Life and the play
provide answers in their own time.
Perhaps it is this questioning
that is the invisible, yet essential,
rigor required that strengthens the string,
our being.
~M
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