Growing

Syntropy

Inspired by Michal Jasiewicz

Frozen silence and blue breath

Disrobe the heavy coats of winter

Warm in the copper heat of the fire

And the soft glow of sweet company

The joy of love, music and thought

The lively dance of ideas and words 

The lyrical play of laughter and sighs

Sleepy sounds of comfort and home

Steeped in love’s light 

Imbued with hope and affection

Good will and generosity

Friendship’s dulcet lullaby sings

All present gather round

And enter in

Adding verse

Rhythm and rhyme 

Rounding out the sound

With each heart’s tranquil beat

A fusion of harmony and dissonance

Propelling itself toward a unified goal

Of symbiosis and syntropy

Syntropy: in psychology, a wholesome association with others. 

From the Greek syn (together) and tropos (tendency), the term was first coined by mathematician, Luigi Fantappiè, in 1941, in order to describe the mathematical properties of the advanced waves solution of the Klein-Gordon equation which unites Quantum Mechanics with Special Relativity. Syntropy, in contradistinction to entropy, is “the tendency towards energy concentration, order, organization and life.” It is an “anti-entropy.” This is the idea I’ve written about before of order underlying chaos. It is the very essence of the God in the dark principle. And again, you will note, waves are a necessary component to making sense of our universe. 

In a sense, friendship is the beautiful thing that happens when diversity (chaos) gives itself to something greater than what it is in isolation. In fact, diversity is only itself in relation to another. When diversity is viewed in contrast, the beauty can be lost, but when it bows to a “tendency toward … concentration,” or as in the poem below: “disrobe(s) the heavy coats of winter,” the change occurs. The underlying powers of syntropy work to bring order and life. 

It is as if God’s plan works itself out to bring all creation unto Himself.

Inspired by artist Paul Clark

Snow

The light that shimmers off the snow

At moon’s rise

Is God refracted,

Bounced about and caught

In the darkness of our eyes. 

Inspired by artist Paul Clark

String Theory

String theory.

The things that reside within the quarks…

the strings of energy.

They shimmer, or so we imagine.

They are like the sparkles of the snow, the water that glistens, and the stars at night.

The image of God?