4u2rethink

The hinges told you  
this door had been around forever,  
but the fresh paint made you feel 
you were the first to accept its invitation. 
The colour blue was simultaneously cold and warm,
you wanted to resist and accept its invitation
knowing that no one who came to this door
remained unchanged. 
The door handle held out its hand 
as you were welcomed by name 
past, […]

Hidden within the question lies a quest 
Quest-ion 
Questions demand answers; 
a quest calls for your heart.
Questions seek knowledge;
a quest requires courage.
Questions define the destination;
a quest is a journey.
Questions more often than not, are loaded; 
a quest is open to surprise and mystery. 
Oh that we would step out of the question and into the quest. 
 

 
Time to get up from your desk and take a mind wander 
Yesterday, the day before and the day before that have cut a rut in your thinking 
Familiar paths that always lead to the same end 
The kind of thinking you do when you don’t think 
 
Let your mind wander 
Day dream 
Play with an idea 
Think an impossible thought 
and then […]

Rodin’s lonely thinker sits lost deep in thought
Contemplating questions for which the answer is a mystery
Leaning forward bracing the weight of thought in his hand
Clothed only by an idea
Yet the thinker cast in bronze can not think
Bound by an idea of thinking
Stuck in a thinking rut
If only thinking could be moved from the stump of […]