Thanks, Mary.
There is a Zen aspect to this I am not sure will come through, based on the Zen concept that the "nothing" in every moment is self-sufficient and involves a sense of the eternal underlying all change.
Maybe it needs an epigraph of something like this from the 13th C. Zen master, Dogen:
"spring does not become summer and, in the same way, firewood does not become ashes: there is spring, and then there is summer; there is firewood, and then there are ashes ..."
In other words, even while passing, "gold stays" in the eternal moment.
[This message has been edited by Mark Allinson (edited June 29, 2008).]
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