is a useful visual metaphor, a way of mapping.

Many hands stitch many stories

building one many-mooded, multi-hued tale of grief and hope and life ongoing.

How widened is my gaze, scoping it out?

Am I set by my nature to go for the gestalt

or start staring at the cells just under-

      Ground?

Quick behind the looking comes the seeing.

You can only see what you are looking for.

Pattern recognition

Once an embryo paleontologist went out on her first hunt in a field her leader told her was full of fish. All the team scooping them up, right and left while she found nary a one. Next day she did—just one. Day following she netted two. Soon she could no longer not see them. Her looking laid the pattern of the fish aswim in the ground under her feet.

Come scale down the scope of the quilt,

each square telling a private tale

many stories of grief and hope

and life ongoing.

Find the fine stitching.

The movement in the threads reveals his his signature

in the phase beyond is bound her DNA.

COMMUNITY QUILT

TAKE 2

I’m visualizing a quilt, one of those quilts constructed by a community

for a purpose     

commemorating   imagining and building together

Most of you have seen such a quilt,

many of you have put your handiwork into one or more.

Some lucky few may be looking now at that one on the wall

owned on loan.

If you look wide-eyed you see the gestalt, the big picture.

Narrowing down the gaze you are

looking at the individual cells,

out of which the body of the quilt was built,

we see each cell a story in itself.

In literature, this could be called a frame tale,

also a popular format for a television series,

each episode a complete story in itself and

fitting into an overarching plotline.

Finer tune your scope and find

the fine threads tying the parts into one.

His signature is found in the movement of the line

her DNA embedded in the finest fiber of thread.

Shift your gaze back and forth from the largest whole of it

(including context if you can manage)

to the minute detail and stages in-between.

At which phase do you feel most stable, most secure,

where are you at the whim of a wind?

Where are you the most comfortable and is that the same as stable?

Now take the inner image of your body

remember the feeling of your body as you imagine

overlaying it onto the quilt.

Your body is the quilt with all those little cells contained

shift your gaze and feel your body as one of many cells

comprising a bigger body.

MOVEMENT IS THE GROUND WE STAND ON

This is the main thing. Movement, change, flux and flow.

There is no solid ground.

An interesting thing about movement is that any beam of movement is always going two directions at once. Movement is bidirectional.

EXERCISING

REPARATIONS

OF THE BASE

Two poles, plus and minus.

To repair and strengthen the base 

attention must be paid more toward minus.

In other words, learn to let go.

Basic physiology lesson: Reciprocal Innervation goes way back to Descartes 1626. There is the agonist muscle and the antagonist. Muscles work in pairs (remember how movement is bidirectional). Striated muscle

(three types of muscle: striated, smooth, and cardiac), which are the muscles that make you move, mostly work across joints. Muscles on one side contract. Place a hand on a table or on your leg, palm down (prone). Now lift your forefinger. Muscles along the top of your hand contract. Never mind their names. Extensor muscles in general. For the finger to lift it is necessary that the ones on the bottom, the flexors, don't contract. Otherwise, they would be fighting and that's called tetanic contraction. 

When lifting (or pushing or pulling) how much weight will move just by letting go.

Start with little weight, maybe only an empty hand.

On balance more bend more toward the pole of letting go. Give that your attention. Even when lifting pushing pulling weight find all the work you can let go of. Check your face a lot. Grimacing is unnecessary work. Let go of your face.

These are all some things to play with.

Let go all at once or super slow glide down

pausing here and there along the way

allowing reparation and sharing up along the ranks

Bouncing softly up and overall enough more down to take you to

       Ground.

Turn the quivering into dancing

BODY SCHEMA

BODY IMAGE

A body-image is in some ways always the sum of the body-images of the community according to the various relations in the community. Relations to the body-images of others are determined by the factor of nearness and farness and by the factor of emotional nearness and farness.

––PAUL SCHILDER

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MUCUS

HANGING OUT IN TRANSITION ZONES

A contranym is a word that means both itself and its opposite. Cleave is one example of a contranym. I can be used to mean 'stick to' or it can mean 'separate from. There is something contranmic in the nature of mucus, which acts as a glue (and in the case of mucilage is a glue) and lubricant.