Inner space that makes it livable.

We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.

We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.

We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.

We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.

chapter eleven of the Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tsu
from a lovely translation by Stephen Mitchell

Happy Monday!