The Rocking Chair of Memories

a Zen philosophy states that all form is emptiness yet it’s not as all emptiness is form but in essence not Plato maintained that its essence is in its purpose the idea of the chair preceded its existence the idea of the chair contains its purpose while the philosophers are bellyaching over whether one could and actually should fashion a chair out of an imaginary log we have long ago carved a rocking chair out of treasured memories and apricate at leisure on the front porch of our own reality