If I rely on the Path entirely there is the fear that I, of myself, am nothing.  Like the hole in the donut.  But the hole MAKES it a donut.  Maybe my feeling of insecurity, doubt and uselessness is exactly what defines me as human.  Maybe that’s what this trip was all about–“feeling” like the hole and then eventually recognizing that I am whole WITH the hole.

I’ve spent time in my life feeling like nothing.  Like a “know-nothing.”  Then I looked around me and saw that without holes we wouldn’t have clothes to wear (need those openings for arms and legs), or earrings, or necklaces or lace or funnels or glasses and cups and on and on and on.

As the Tao says, it is the hole in the pitcher that makes it useful.  The empty space calling to be filled.  Thus I bow to the empty space inside of me today and allow it to be filled with trees, cool air, the call of my cat and the next indicated right action.