The Purple Pumpkin

The Purple Pumpkin Waiting for the white paper which underlies this writing to loose a flow of words finding Peace in the facing-off: a pumpkin and a purple cushion.. Henry David Thoreau chose to sit on a solitary pumpkin not a crowded purple cushion.. Many we know might charge him with most slothful neglect.. Our venerable teachers have exhorted us to lift up the purple with their assumption: what is real is purple.. Yet we..startled by experience find that very often purple is pain.. We long to sit on that pumpkin long since overgrown with dead purple vines.. At last in our longing the pumpkin may speak of what lies in hiding .. 'til just now.. with Peace emerging the Pumpkin is Purple... "I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion." --Henry David Thoreau