life is a river & we the streams that feed it each stream should empty itself completely into the river & not hold back our way of talking our way of being is what we have to contribute to the stream why keep it all dammed up ? ------- who should a slow moving river try to move fast why should a meander ing stre am pretend to be straight? ---------- the civilizers build high dams but water flows wherever it can ---------- are you afraid that if you're a cow some mouse will get ahead of you some bright-eyed rodent do you in? fear not (God watches mice & cows) -------- the animal most to fear is man Robert Lax journal entry May 19, 1974 --from pp. 327-329, Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax by Michael N. McGregor