Originality

The curious surprise

when meeting with originality

comes not from

stimulation of novelty

With temporary delights

With distracting entertainment

With shiny superficiality

When meeting with originality

Both in oneself and in another

Springs forth a deeper remembrance

A remembering of

Our inherent wholeness,

Our connection to same such Well,

Our shared creative Source

The curious surprise then

When meeting with originality

Comes from meeting

Our unitive Origins beyond self

My art is your art

Your art is my art

As an expression through us

from divine Nature

An everlasting delight

A traction towards

our shared center

My sensations that

I have never had an original

creative thought comes not from

Absence of my uniqueness

My Sensations come from

touching into our Origins

the Presence of Source

beyond self

The same Source

that dreams, speaks, creates

through all-that-is

Blessed be the arrival of originality

And the Infinite creativity to which we all belong

Sculpture by Ruth Asawa, permanent collection in de Young museum, San Francisco, CA