Dying/broken/forgiven.... now I begin

Born: 17-06-56....gemini.... monkey
re-born: 3-09-80
born again\found: 14-04-08
other notable dates: 10-03-68; 03-09-87; 23-03-96;
1-05-98; 31-01-02; 5-04-04

Interests: movement, stressed/transgressive embodiment, lived experience (body\space\time\relation)
expression ( word, dance, text, image, story, music, poetics)
learning, yielding......

Hopes for the blog:
offer up the wild intersectedness of lived experience and engage others in creative, expressive, perhaps irreverant, hopefully playful, and respectful encounters....
enact kindness
create moments of pause for disclosure, discovery, stillness

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Learning



gazing carefully
clear-eyed readiness
calm enough
cold enough
old enough

rustling raises shackles
a welcome caress
aroused
shivering with awareness
awesome
night falls
dawn breaks
twilight hovers

surrounded
wondering

how do you hunt a fox
start
hunting
the fox will teach you


9 comments:

  1. Wonderful - I remember learning from a paintbrush while stubbing paint into a wall of embossed wallpaper.
    "the fox will teach you" - I've not heard it put quite like this before, not that I have any intention of hunting foxes ;]

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  2. I love the last verse. It's just so perfect.

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  3. Excellent, I found it really beautiful and profound, quite a message you tell people trough this seemingly simple words, you are so right about how teaching and learning works.

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  4. This is astoundingly good. I agree with Madame DeFarge. The last verse ties it up perfectly and gives it a resonating ending. I read this more than once. Well done.

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  5. Pisces-- thanks for the corollary..... nicely done!
    Madame-- thanks--- I like the idea of this kind of learning.
    Mariana-- how nice of you; it seems we share some of the same sentiments about teaching and learning
    Seventy niner... thanks for the kind words--- I'm glad it spoke to you :))

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  6. Dave-- thanks; I am enjoying your haikus over at your blog!

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  7. It is so hard to be attentive to the fox, or whatever animal or non-animal object we are hunting. Even more so because this attentiveness requires forgetfullnes. Well, just the thoughts that your text sparked.

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  8. Oyvind--- what a great line: this attentiveness requires forgetfulness; beautiful. thanks for the visit and this lovely sentiment.... I will be reflecting on it.

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