Abstract
This brief reverie on transience and possibility is a collage-like piece combining bits of poetry, dream, imagery and prose along with more predictable scholastic fare. It reflects, elliptically, on the legacy of preeminent existential-humanistic psychologist Rollo May, honoring the matrix of thinkers out of which his work emerges even as it suggests, simultaneously, his hallowed place amid a chorus of contemporaneous voices and minds. The intended purpose is two-fold: (1) a poetic introduction for our Eastern colleagues to a genuine Western sage; and (2) a challenge to the West to more resolutely embody the “courage to create” that May saw as foundational to the prospect of becoming truly human. Message and form, as a consequence, are intricately merged.
Notes
Note: All artwork is reproduced courtesy of Kristina, whose heartrending story is narrated more thoroughly in my book Ethics & Lao-Tzu: Intimations of Character (2008).