I think, especially with everything that is going on in the world today, we can all do with this wonderful song by Nick Lowe.
He's currently on tour in the US.
Wie lange dauert das denn nur?
Ah! Endlich piepst die OfenUHR!
KEKS um Keks duftet gar fein,
sollen ein Geschenk ja sein -
für Dich, wenn wir heut' BUMMELN geh'n.
Ich freu' mich darauf, Dich zu seh'n!
Thirty spokes converge on a hub
but it’s the emptiness
that makes a wheel work
pots are fashioned from clay
but it’s the hollow
that makes a pot work
windows and doors are carved for a house
but it’s the spaces
that make a house work
existence makes a thing useful
but nonexistence makes it work.
— Lao-tzu from ‘Taoteching: With Selected Commentaries from the Past 2,000 Years’, tr. from Chinese by Red Pine