On a field on a Sunday, on the grass on the ground,
there is a ball and a boy and a watch and a team and a coach and a game. Some
will watch some will play some will cheer some will sigh, some will laugh some
will shout some will talk in loud voices about strategy, some won't care. Everywhere
there is participation, the parent that shouts the child that kicks the one
that slips the guy with the watch the guy with the flag the guy with the power
the guy in the center. Someone will win and someone will lose but there won't
be anything resolved, and none of the participants play for resolution, they
play to win, and to carry that emotion through their lives through their strolls
and their goals and their caroling and cake-baking. More than the moment of
victory, they play for control, to be controlled so that they may control, to
be controlled so that their will might be free. They play in a system of time,
in an understanding of the duration of judgement, in an understanding that time
here is a tool, that time does not make them terminal, but rather, that time
will make them a success. This is not a soccer field, this is a time machine,
these are not children, these are Oracles, these are not lives, these are dreams.