Relationism

But, it’s never been done that way before.
You’re just giving way to relativism.

You ever heard those kinds of things? Bless the religious people, but what they refuse to understand is, life changes.

“Music is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.” Alan Watts

Yes, everything is in dynamic interaction with everything else. Forms are good, but forms change. Forms are not the end and they’re certainly not sacred. There are very few things I’m willing to call sacred, though I will label the “spirit of love” sacred. Spirit is permeable. And love is flexible.

So, to borrow from my friend Catherine Keller (and I did ask her a question once in a zoom group of 12 other people so clearly, I can call her my friend), “We approach not a relativism of anything goes—but a relationism of everything flows.”